Last week, while the couple was leaving their church’s food drive, an elderly Michigan man accidently hit and killed his own wife.
Edna Mae Kujawski, 80, was the victim, a family friend told DailyMail.com, adding that he hoped her husband Gordon Kujawski, 82, was “not destroying himself” over her passing.
According to the authorities, Edna, a retired teacher, was struck by Gordon’s 2021 Ford Explorer as he was reversing out of a parking space at Our Lady Consolata Parish Church in Gagetown at around 10 p.m. Edna eventually succumbed to her injuries.
After spending the evening volunteering at a food pantry, witnesses claimed Edna was moving a bag of trash to a trash can in the parking lot as her husband was pulling away.
The spouse has not been detained in connection with the woman’s death, and Michigan State Troopers do not think that drugs or alcohol had a role in her demise.
According to Michigan Live, after an investigation is complete, officers will present a report to the Tuscola County Prosecutor’s Office for consideration.
According to Edna’s web obituary, she was a devoted Catholic, a retired teacher who was well-liked in her neighborhood, and she had previously taught children in Ghana.
According to an online obituary, Edna was born on May 11, 1942, to Steve and Katheryn Karpovich, and she wed Gordon Kujwski on May 9, 1987, at St. Priscilla Catholic Church in Livonia.
She graduated from Madonna College with a degree in teaching and later earned a master’s degree from Eastern Michigan University, using her knowledge to teach in Ghana.
In a 2012 video, she claimed, “I was being called to undertake some missionary work.”
She then organized a program at St. Agatha’s Catholic Church, where she and a group of about a dozen other ladies would create sun dresses for girls without gowns all over the world following Tuesday’s 8.30am Mass.
According to Tuscola Today, missionaries would contact the ladies and inform them of the quantity of dresses they would require, and the women would then start working on manufacturing the gowns for girls in nations like Honduras, Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, Haiti, and Mexico.
Additionally, the group would travel to the Saginaw Correctional Facility in Freeland to instruct male inmates in knitting so they could make donations of mittens, jackets, caps, and scarves.
In 2016, Edna expressed her satisfaction with the situation to Tuscola Today. We are offering our skill to God because we have it. This is the best that we can provide, however tiny.
In addition, Edna coordinated the stocking at the St. Agatha’s food pantry, where Nicholas Hux claimed she would have the largest supply.
He said he began volunteering for the food pantry as an atheist, and started to share with Edna and another woman, Regina Salcido, his questions about the faith ‘that I believed were unanswerable, I thought I was smarter than that.
‘But they were able to answer, and stump me every time as we worked, until I eventually started voluntarily reading a book on saints.’
By 2019, Hux was baptized, which he credits to Edna and Regina’s teachings.
For all of her charitable work, Edna received the 2012 Bishop Murphy Award from the Diocese of Saginaw, and a video about her work showed that Gordon supported her charitable work every step of the way.
‘Edna has an ability to inspire others to get involved and to discover, as she has, the great joy in serving those in need,’ Bishop Joseph R Cistone said at the time.
Edna loved to plant in her spare time and retired at the age of 55 to devote more time to caring for her flowers.
Hux claims that Edna would have easily reached the age of 100 if the sad crash had not occurred, and she is now recognized for her philanthropic activities and giving nature.
Hux told DailyMail.com, “She was very healthy, very strong, and had the strongest faith as well.” He added that she frequently carried the heaviest boxes at the food bank and that when he was struggling, she drove 30 miles by herself and carried a box of food and baby formula for their second-floor apartment.
‘One trip, a lot of food to help us out, and no complaints,’ Hux recalled.
Edna is survived by Gordon; four step-sons, Kevin of Livonia, Greg and his wife Justine, Matthew and David Kujawski all of Arizona; seven grandchildren and nephew, David Karpovich and his wife Holly of Cass City. She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Stephen Karpovich.
A mass will be held for her on July 14 at Our Lady Consolata Parish in Gagetown.