Elizabeth died peacefully at Sarah House in Santa Barbara on October 29, 2007. The last surviving of the eight children of Nikita and Anastasiya Romenko-Kovenko, Elizabeth was born in the Czarist Russian city of Brest Litovsk on November 30, 1906. In her long life she experienced both the disruptions of WWI and the extreme traumas of WWII. Following WWI, after Brest Litovsk became the Polish city of Brzesc, she enjoyed a few years of peace and contentment, especially after she married Feliks Kucharski, a director in charge of establishing health clinics in Poland, and after the birth of her daughter Lucyna. During WWII, Feliks was denounced as an intellectual and for having provided assistance to a Jewish acquaintance. He was imprisoned by the Nazis, first in Warsaw and then in Auschwitz, where he died in 1942. In 1944, Elizabeth and Lucyna participated in the Warsaw Uprising, were captured by the Wehrmacht and were brought in a cattle car to Lager Kirchberg, a forced labor camp in Germany, where they both were made to work in the Scharfenberg & Teubert ammunition plant. Following the war, exhausted in body and psyche, Elizabeth gradually recovered, while waiting, along with relatives, for visas to the U.S. She and Lucyna emigrated to the U.S. in 1949, eventually settling in New Jersey, until Lucyna married Chester F. Radlo, whose military career took him and family to various locations in the U.S. and abroad. Elizabeth particularly enjoyed visiting the various places where her daughter and family were assigned and where she eagerly helped in the upbringing of her grandchildren. At the age of 90 she left her home in Lakewood, N.J. and resettled in Santa Barbara. Elizabeth is survived by her daughter Lucyna and son-in-law Chester, granddaughter Elizabeth Cassels and her husband Robert, granddaughter Carolyn Radlo, step grandson Nicholas Radlo of London, UK, and great-granddaughter Alanna. During her stay at Sarah House she received a vigilant care provided by members of Hospice which was greatly appreciated. In accordance with Russian Orthodox Church rituals Elizabeth was laid to rest at the Santa Barbara Cemetery on 31 of October 2007. A very beautiful and courageous mother,grandmother and greatgrandmother will be missed, remembered and thought of as dear "Babcia" to all every day.