Eva Mae Wulff1

b. 6 April 1909, d. 10 December 1991
This picture of Mae (Wulff) Kostash was taken in about 1990.
Eva Mae Wulff, daughter of Thomas Alfred Wulff and Annie Retta Butler, was born on 6 April 1909 at Copper Cliff, Ontario.2

When Mae was growing up she travelled all over for her education and spent some time in Pennsylvania with her aunt, Pauline Knoellinger.3

Mae's father, Alfred, was a supervisor working for INCO in the Copper Cliff smelter. Most of the men working in the smelter were boarded in company residences. One day her father came home with a young man who had just started work with INCO. There was no room in the residences so Alfred had offerred his own home as a temporary shelter.

The young man was Marshall Kostash, the man that Mae would marry less than two years later.3

Mae married Marshall Kostash, son of Fedor Kostaszczuk and Anna Zwarych, on 31 May 1937 at St. John the Divine, Copper Cliff, Ontario.

Mae and Marshall quickly settled in to what would be a common lifestyle for miners in Copper Cliff. Mae was kept busy raising their two children, while Marshall worked on various shifts at INCO.Marshall retired from INCO in 1971.3

Marshall and Mae spent the next several years of retirement travelling and visiting their children's families in Ottawa and Barry's Bay. They both enjoyed many years of good health and had an active retirement.4

Mae died on 10 December 1991 at Sudbury General Hospital, Sudbury, Ontario, at age 825 and was cremated on 12 December 1991 at Parklawn Crematorium, Sudbury, Ontario.1,5
Charts
Pedigree of Eva Mae Wulff

Children of Eva Mae Wulff and Myroslav Kostaszczuk

  • Robert John Kostash b. 12 Apr 1938
  • Linda Mae Kostash b. 22 Mar 1943

Exhibits

Thomas Alfred Wulff and his daughter Eva Mae Wulff in about 1930 in Copper Cliff, Ontario.
Mae Wulff soaking her feet in about 1930, likely in Copper Cliff, Ontario.
From left to right: Marshall Kostash, Mae (Wulff) Kostash, Edith (Heyes) Jago, and Charles Jago. This picture was taken in 1984, in Barry's Bay, Ontario.
The Svarich clan reunion in Edmonton in 1986.
Marshall and Mae (Wulff) Kostash ca. 1990.
Obituary for Eva Mae (Wulff) Kostash.
Funeral card for Eva Mae (Wulff) Kostash.

Citations

  1. Eva Mae Kostash, funeral flyer, 12 December 1991, privately held by John Kostash, Hamilton, Ontario.
  2. Eva May Wulff birth registration no. 44392 (1909); Ontario Registration of Births, 1869-; microfilm MS 929, roll 204, Archives of Ontario, Toronto.
  3. Eva Mae (Wulff) Kostash, (Copper Cliff, Ontario), interview by Robert Kostash (son of Mae), 20 July 1989; handwritten notes privately held by John Kostash, Hamilton, Ontario, 2011.
  4. Marshall Kostash, (Copper Cliff, Ontario), interview by Robert Kostash (son of Marshall), 20 July 1989; handwritten notes privately held by John Kostash, Hamilton, Ontario, 2011.
  5. Eva Mae Kostash obituary, Sudbury Star, (Sudbury, Ontario), 11 December 1991, , privately held by John Kostash, Hamilton, Ontario.