Gregory Fesko

INDIANA

GREGORY FESKO

1934-2025

Memory eternal, Grigore Iosifescu aka

Gregory Fesko passed away at 9:30 PM on Sep.6, 2025

Leaves behind two daughters: Karina Stoffel of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and Cristina Tanaskovich of Avon, Indiana, grandchildren Marinko Tanaskovich, Joanna Linn, Alex Tanaskovich, great grandchildren Rudy Linn and Robin Linn. He was married to Ioana Iosifescu, deceased. The viewing and funeral services will be at 10:00 am, Sep.13 2025 at Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox Church, 626 Wick Ave. Youngstown Ohio. Viewing starts at 10:00am and funeral service at 11:00am.

He will be buried at the Saint Peter and Paul Ukrainian cemetery.

Grigore Iosifescu was born Feb.1 1934 in Roman, Romania had emigrated to US in 1985 with his family during communism, he was a great artist, known for intricate black ink landscapes of Youngstown valley and beyond, wrote an autobiographical anecdote book called “The black cat and those eleven days in the Mahoning County jail”. HE was an avid ping-pong player, enjoyed chess game and sang in choir, loved animals and people! He will be greatly missed by his family and friends! God Bless!

If anyone wants to donate money in his memory, please make checks to Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox Church Youngstown Ohio.

Vaschak-Kirila Funeral Home handled the arrangements for the family.

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