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Friends are invited to visit with the family on Saturday, March 12 2016 from 9:30 – 10 AM at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne NJ 07470.
A funeral Mass will follow at 10 AM.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, 52 Totowa Rd, Totowa, NJ 07512.
Kristina Grosikova, known to her grandchildren and family friends as "Kika", age 62, passed away suddenly at her home in Irvington, NJ on March 3, 2016.
Kristina was born in Jurkiskes, small village in Belarus close to Lithuanian border. At the age of six her family moved to Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania. Vilnius was Kristina's home for nearly forty years. In 1996 she came to the United States, settling temporarily in Brooklyn, NY before crossing the Hudson River to Jersey City, NJ where she lived for over a decade. While searching for a place to settle closer to her daughter living in Wayne, Kristina rented the apartment in Irvington.
Kristina had never taken anything in life for granted. She had to start working in a factory assembly line at the age of 17, while studying in a Technical School. She would soon be transferred within the factory to a drafting department. During that time Kristina joined a Ham Radio Club and frequently participated in weekend-long contests, helping her team secure top placements many times. The walls of her Vilnius apartment were decorated not with the usual wallpaper but with the QSL cards (a written confirmation of radio communication) from all over the world. This hobby and electronics drafting work lead her to study Radio Electronics at the Vilnius Technical Institute. Later Kristina worked as an electronics maintenance engineer at the Vilnius Meteorological Bureau until the collapse of the USSR economy towards the end of the Cold War. Kristina then did whatever work she could find to survive. This inspired her to move to the United States.
In 1996 at the age of forty-three years old Kristina packed up her family and moved to Brooklyn, New York. Again she took any work she could to survive. She cleaned houses, cared for children and the elderly, sold new and used cars at automobile dealerships. She eventually settled working as a customer service representative in the health care industry. Kristina liked driving cars and speed, and worked as a car transporter at Hertz not just for additional income but because she also truly enjoyed it.
Kristina took delight in all the life's little pleasures. She has on more than one occasion sneaked quietly into her daughter's/grandkids' house in the middle of the night before the birthday or Christmas to decorate the common areas, surprising everyone in the morning. With the joy little children have and adults seem to loose, Kristina enjoyed bubbles and rainbows, fireworks and hot air balloon fiestas. She happily joined kids in laser tag games, laughed from her heart, and was always ready for a bit of silliness and a small (or big!) adventure, such as going to watch her daughter sky dive and ending up jumping the same day herself. Kristina also literally stopped to smell and admire the flowers, and would often pull over her car to the side of the road so she could capture the awe inspiring sunrises and sunsets.
Kika, we will miss your affection. Your frantic mess in the kitchen while cooking the traditional Lithuanian twelve Christmas dishes or coloring Easter eggs. We will miss your unique ‘Kika style’ multi-layered jello cakes with fruits. Our celebrations will not be the same without your presence. You will be remembered as a very tough, but very affectionate and loving person who had a survivor attitude, and kept dreaming. And even though we occasionally gave you hard time about your spoiling the grandchildren rotten, we are heartbroken that they will no longer get to experience your love.
Kristina is survived by daughter Renata Zachariah and her husband Boban of Wayne; her two grandchildren Adriel Jonathan and Miriam Grace Zachariah; and brother Teofilis Biveinis of Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Friends are invited to visit with the family on Saturday, March 12 2016 from 9:30 – 10 AM at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne NJ 07470.
A funeral Mass will follow at 10 AM.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, 52 Totowa Rd, Totowa, NJ 07512.
Services
Friends are invited to visit with the family on Saturday, March 12 2016 from 9:30 – 10 AM at Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne NJ 07470.
A funeral Mass will follow at 10 AM.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, 52 Totowa Rd, Totowa, NJ 07512.
Kristina Grosikova, known to her grandchildren and family friends as "Kika", age 62, passed away suddenly at her home in Irvington, NJ on March 3, 2016.
Kristina was born in Jurkiskes, small village in Belarus close to Lithuanian border. At the age of six her family moved to Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania. Vilnius was Kristina's home for nearly forty years. In 1996 she came to the United States, settling temporarily in Brooklyn, NY before crossing the Hudson River to Jersey City, NJ where she lived for over a decade. While searching for a place to settle closer to her daughter living in Wayne, Kristina rented the apartment in Irvington.
Kristina had never taken anything in life for granted. She had to start working in a factory assembly line at the age of 17, while studying in a Technical School. She would soon be transferred within the factory to a drafting department. During that time Kristina joined a Ham Radio Club and frequently participated in weekend-long contests, helping her team secure top placements many times. The walls of her Vilnius apartment were decorated not with the usual wallpaper but with the QSL cards (a written confirmation of radio communication) from all over the world. This hobby and electronics drafting work lead her to study Radio Electronics at the Vilnius Technical Institute. Later Kristina worked as an electronics maintenance engineer at the Vilnius Meteorological Bureau until the collapse of the USSR economy towards the end of the Cold War. Kristina then did whatever work she could find to survive. This inspired her to move to the United States.
In 1996 at the age of forty-three years old Kristina packed up her family and moved to Brooklyn, New York. Again she took any work she could to survive. She cleaned houses, cared for children and the elderly, sold new and used cars at automobile dealerships. She eventually settled working as a customer service representative in the health care industry. Kristina liked driving cars and speed, and worked as a car transporter at Hertz not just for additional income but because she also truly enjoyed it.
Kristina took delight in all the life's little pleasures. She has on more than one occasion sneaked quietly into her daughter's/grandkids' house in the middle of the night before the birthday or Christmas to decorate the common areas, surprising everyone in the morning. With the joy little children have and adults seem to loose, Kristina enjoyed bubbles and rainbows, fireworks and hot air balloon fiestas. She happily joined kids in laser tag games, laughed from her heart, and was always ready for a bit of silliness and a small (or big!) adventure, such as going to watch her daughter sky dive and ending up jumping the same day herself. Kristina also literally stopped to smell and admire the flowers, and would often pull over her car to the side of the road so she could capture the awe inspiring sunrises and sunsets.
Kika, we will miss your affection. Your frantic mess in the kitchen while cooking the traditional Lithuanian twelve Christmas dishes or coloring Easter eggs. We will miss your unique ‘Kika style’ multi-layered jello cakes with fruits. Our celebrations will not be the same without your presence. You will be remembered as a very tough, but very affectionate and loving person who had a survivor attitude, and kept dreaming. And even though we occasionally gave you hard time about your spoiling the grandchildren rotten, we are heartbroken that they will no longer get to experience your love.
Kristina is survived by daughter Renata Zachariah and her husband Boban of Wayne; her two grandchildren Adriel Jonathan and Miriam Grace Zachariah; and brother Teofilis Biveinis of Vilnius, Lithuania.
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