Olga S. Murzina

Olga S. Murzina died Sunday, the 26th of August, at Montefiore Nursing Home in Beachwood, Ohio.

She was born in 1937 in Moscow, Russia. Olga’s life, like most lives of her generation, was affected by World War II. Her brother was killed during the battle of Leningrad on his first day of action in 1941, and her father was killed in 1942 during the battle of Stalingrad.

Olga received a Master in Russian Language and Literature degree from Moscow State University. On April 12th of 1961, she met her husband and the father of her two children on the streets of Moscow during spontaneous celebrations of the first human flight to outer space.

For most of her working career in Russia, she worked as a manager at the Russia Census Bureau Computer Center. In the 1970s and 1980s, Olga also worked as a part-time tour guide at several Moscow museums, including the Kremlin State Museum. After officially retiring, Olga worked for several years as the station manager at an independent TV station in Moscow.

She moved to the United States in 2002 to be closer to her son’s family, eventually becoming a citizen of the United States.

Olga is remembered as a strong, determined, dedicated woman. She also had a soft side and unbounded love to her family.

She is survived by two sons, two grandsons, two granddaughters and three great-granddaughters.

Memorial gifts may be made to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, http://parkinson.org/

A family-only ceremony is planned at the Chapel at Crown Hill Cemetery in Twinsburg, Ohio on Saturday, September 1st.