Matushka Sonja Tutko (Horoschak) fell asleep in the Lord on Sunday night, March 7, 2021. The wife of Archpriest Peter Tutko, they have been married for fifty-three years. She and Father Peter served in a number of OCA parishes and founded several of them in the Dioceses of both New England and of the South.
Matushka Sonja was born in Paterson, NJ on February 19, 1943. She was a graduate of Wm Paterson University and Mississippi State. She was an excellent and well-respected choir director and also spent many years teaching religious education. Matushka Sonja was educated as a teacher holding Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Biology and helped support her family by teaching that subject in high-schools until her retirement in 2010.
She is survived by Archpriest Peter, her son Mark Tutko and one grandchild Jayson.
Matushka Sonja’s body will lay in state at Saint Andrew the First-Called Church, 4633 Glissade Drive, New Port Richey, FL on Friday evening March 12, 2021 with a Panikhida at 7:00 PM. The Funeral Divine Liturgy will be celebrated on Saturday morning, March 13, at 10:00 AM. Interment will follow at Meadowlawn Cemetery in New Port Richey, FL.
May Matushka Sonja’s memory be eternal!