When Stanley Petrush was born on 10 September 1917, in Brokenhead, Manitoba, Canada, his father, John Petrush, was 37 and his mother, Anne Woloshyn, was 25. He died on 21 February 1929, in his hometown, at the age of 11.
Americanized form of Czech, Slovak, and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Petráš and Petraš, Serbian, Croatian, and possibly also Slovenian Petraš, Hungarian Petrás (see Petras ), their Polish cognates Pietrasz and Petrasz, Sorbian P'etraš, and also of their Germanized form Petrasch.
Rusyn and Ukrainian: from the personal name Petrash, a derivative of Petro, an equivalent of Peter .
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