SARATOGA SPRINGS — Lidia Bazar, 86, of Saratoga Springs passed away Monday evening, June 1, 2015. Born in Borislau, Ukraine in 1928, she was the daughter of Mykola and Anastazia Seniw. She attended high school in Ukraine and college in Germany. Following World War II, she immigrated to the United States in 1950 with her parents, and brother, Michael Babiak, and his wife, Stephania.
Lidia settled with her parents in Amsterdam, NY. As a young woman, she worked as a medical technologist at St. Clare’s Hospital in Schenectady. She married in 1953 to Myron Bazar, whom she met in Amsterdam. Together they opened two successful businesses, the Mohawk Motel and the Tepee Restaurant on Main Street in Amsterdam. In 1990, they retired and moved to Saratoga Springs, NY.
Lidia was a great art lover, collector and an accomplished artist. Her friendly, outgoing personality and love for design, culture, architecture, and the arts provided tremendous inspiration to all her friends and family. She loved to travel, garden, play tennis, dance and attend fund-raising benefits in support of many Saratoga Springs charities. Lidia also devoted a great deal of her time to her family.
She is survived by her loving family: her husband of 62 years, Myron, her two devoted sons, Peter Bazar and his partner Veronica Nemethy, and Walter Bazar and wife Suzan Nolan, of Saratoga Springs; several nephews, nieces and cousins here in the United States and also in Toronto, Canada.
Memorial services will be held on Wednesday, June 24 at 11 a.m. at St. Clements Roman Catholic Church, 231 Lake Avenue, Saratoga Springs, and Saturday, June 20, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, 2410 4th Avenue, Watervliet, NY.
In lieu of flowers, the Bazar Family prefers donations to a fund for Ukrainian humanitarian and family relief in memory of Lidia Bazar; remembrances can be made by check, payable to “UCC of Rochester,” annotated as “Help for Ukraine in Memory of Lidia Bazar,” and mailed to the Ukrainian Cultural Center of Rochester, 1040 Jackson Road, Webster NY 14580, or online via www.uccofrochester.org/donate.html, annotated as “Help for Ukraine in Memory of Lidia Bazar.”
