Eva Varga did not let life slow her down – not polio, not communist Hungary, not a new language
Eva was the heartbeat of her family and lived to see her granddaughter head off to university
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ShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountOpen this photo in gallery:Eva Varga.Alice Xue/Courtesy of familyEva Varga: Polio survivor. Social worker. Mother. Grandmother. Born Mar. 9, 1938, in Miskolc, Hungary; died Sept. 8, 2025, in Toronto, of complications following a stroke; aged 87.Eva Launsky never let polio slow her down as a child and she would become a tough woman who attempted to escape a repressive country at 18 and who earned a master’s degree in her 40s in her third language. Yet she also delighted in the smallest details, such as a new bud on her favourite plant.Eva lost her father, a Hungarian soldier, during the Second World War.
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