A funeral mass was held this morning (Wednesday, May 29) for the young Hanmer mother believed to have been murdered by her common-law husband who then killed himself.
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Maria Fitzulak |
Maria Fitzulak, 26, was remembered by family and friends at St. Mary?s Ukrainian Catholic Church.
Interment followed at the Civic Cemetery.
The Sudbury-born Fitzulak was a lifelong resident of the city.
She was employed as a ward clerk at the St. Joseph?s Health Centre and previously worked in the dietary department at the Memorial Hospital.
Maria was a First Aid Instructor with Emergency Medical Planning of Canada. She was an avid gardener.
Memorial donations should be directed to a trust fund set up for her two sons, Austin and Dustin Gareau.
Private memorial funeral prayers will be held tomorrow in the R.J. Barnard Funeral Home for Fitzulak?s common-law husband, Michael Gareau. There will be no public visitation.
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Michael Gareau |
Cremation will follow at the Parklawn Crematorium.
The 28-year-old was employed at the Gogama Forest Products Mill.
OPP were called to a lodge near Gogama last Thursday night after Gareau apparently shot himself.
Local police received information from OPP early Friday morning about the sudden death of the man. Officers were dispatched to the home on St. Michelle Street in Hanmer where he resided with his common-law wife and their two small children.
Police found the body of Fitzulak in the basement of the home. The body exhibited signs of blunt trauma.
Police say the children were not at risk as they had been placed in the care of relatives.
OPP and Sudbury police have established the murder of the Hanmer woman happened prior to the suicide of her common-law husband.
