With heartfelt sadness we’re sharing the news of our father (“Tata”), Oktavian Ungureanu, and his passing on Saturday April 15, 2023.

Tata was born to Stefan Ungureanu and Alma (nee Hoflich) during ​​a chaotic time in history which caused the family to separate and our father being orphaned and raised in Austria. These events instilled in him a desire to travel and to find a better life.
As a young boy, he took the opportunity to leave on the ship, Samaria, and find a new life in Canada.
While working as a Confectioner / Baker, he found and married the love of his life and our mother, Leokadia (nee Jakubczak) Ungureanu.
They were a perfect match and raised a family of two children thus growing their love and our father’s desire to build a better life for all of us.
The family was not our dad’s only passion which extended to knowledge of aircraft, languages (which he spoke four), creative photography, Olympic sports and the collection of coins and stamps. Tata continued to love travel, especially to his homeland of Austria with Hawaii being a close second. These passions all were shared with us which ignited our own desire to learn more.

Their love sponsored eight family members to come to Canada where they established a new thriving life for themselves and their children.
Tata was always a very generous husband, father, and uncle. His generosity extended to everyone that he met and he relished to always be helpful.
Our dad was an industrious breadwinner and entrepreneur where he always had something on the “side”. Started from installing TV antennas, installing windows until Tata grew his business to Arts caulking and weatherstripping Inc.

Tata always fought to provide us the best while sharing with us his love, laughter, and sense of humour. Tata had a big heart and taught us the important values in life, the value of hard work, ethics, and to strive in this world.

Tata was an amazing dad and husband who leaves a great gap in our lives and will be greatly missed.
Our hearts are full with the content knowledge that Tata is now and always will be dancing with mama.