Susan Semancik Polascik age 95 of Stratford passed away on Monday August 4, 2008 in Bridgeport Hospital. Mrs. Polascik a retired seamstress for the General Electric Company was born in Kyjov, Czechoslovakia to the late John and Anna Semancik and has been a long time area resident. She was the widow of George Polascik. Susie was a life long member of the Carpatho Russian Orthodox Church of St. John the Baptist in Bridgeport and was a member of their Mother's and Daughter's Club, Seniors and was the founder and long time supervisor of the "Kitchen Crew". Survivors include her devoted grand-nephew Milan Fanclik and his wife Maria and their daughters Jessica and Claudia of Trumbull, and several other grand nieces and nephews in Slovakia as well as several cousins. In addition to her husband and parents she was pre-deceased by an infant daughter and a brother Juraj Semancik and a sister Helen Fanclikova. Funeral services will take place on Friday August 8th at 9:15 a.m. in the Adzima Funeral Home 50 Paradise Green Place Stratford and at 10 a.m. in the Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church of St. John the Baptist for a Requiem Service. Interment will be in St. John's Cemetery Stratford. Friends may call on Thursday from 4-7 p.m. Panachida at 4:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers those desiring may make donations to St. John's Church.