Slavica "Gloria" Keulyan

Gloria AKA Slavica Keulyan was born on June 21, 1920 and died November 8, 2022. She was born to the Rubcic family of five in the former Yugoslavian town of Kutina, which is in Central Croatia. Her first marriage was to Galici. In 1943 she and Galici were taken to the Nazi concentration camp of Stara Gradiska and Jasenovac where she witnessed the gruesome cruelties that occured in World War Il and contracted Typhoid Fever and Malaria which she was miraculously healed of. In 1945, when the war ended, she was granted liberation and freed from the camp; however, her husband Galici never returned from the concentration camp. She managed to get a job in her profession as a medical transcriber working for the new communist regime. She was asked by the new political regime to spy on doctors and hospital personnel which she chose not to accept and was prosecuted as a result of her choice. In 1950 she decided to leave the country and illegally cross the border to Italy. She then went to the American Embassy to inquire about migrating to this Great country. After one year waiting to get an interview with the American authorities, a medical exam was done and it was found that she had tuberculosis (TB). There was no cure at the time and the doctor who examined her asked if she would participate with a group study to try an experimental drug for TB, which was the antibiotic Penicillin. She and the whole group to try this experimental drug were cured and she was then able to come to this Great country. A gentleman from the same emigration camp asked her to marry him and she accepted, becoming Mrs. Marko Jevacevici. He was a well known painter of Orthodox Churches and painted in the Montenegrin region of the former Yugoslavia and here in America. They arrived in America in 1956 through Ellis Island port of call, point of emigration and legally settled in Elisabethville, New Jersey where a community of former Yugoslavians have settled before. In 1960 they moved to the town of Cupertino A where her husband was hired to paint an Orthodox Church. In 1964 they came to Long Beach and in 1965 she divorced Marko Jevanovici over family disputes. She then noved to Hawthorne CA where she got a factory job assembling TV's. In 1966 she met George Keulyan, marrying him and becoming a housewife. They moved to Yucaipa in 1974 to Cedar Avenue and in 1984 to Cornell Drive both in Yucaipa CA. Interment will be held at RIVERSIDE NATIONAL CEMETERY, November 23, 2022 at 10:30 a.m.

Slavica "Gloria" Keulyan

June 21, 1920 - November 8, 2022