{"id":9305,"date":"2023-03-14T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T10:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/?p=9305"},"modified":"2023-03-14T11:50:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T10:50:27","slug":"story-of-mara-vitasovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/en\/story-of-mara-vitasovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of Mara Vitasovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARA VITASOVI\u0106 was born on February 2, 1953 in Te Kopuru, in the Northland,\u00a0 New Zealand, in the family of Andrija Skokandi\u0107 from \u017drnovo and Neda, n\u00e9e \u0160estanovi\u0107 from Lumbarda, both places on Croatian island of Kor\u010dula. Her father came to Sweetwater in New Zealand to dig gum. When he earned enough money, he bought a farm in Ruawa in 1938. Then, in 1951, he went to \u017drnovo to visit his family, and on that occasion he also met his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Mara, who was born two years later, spoke Croatian all her life. In her native Te Kopuru, there was a hospital where many women from the Dargaville area came to give birth, and many Dalmatian children were born there.<\/p>\n<p>Mara graduated in 1973, and soon after married Jure Vitasovi\u0107. She got a job as an elementary school teacher in 1974, but put it &#8220;on hold&#8221; for 25 years while she raised her three daughters. She also helped her husband grow strawberries on their farm for 40 years. She returned to her teaching job and worked for 10 years, balancing her duties at school and on the farm. She is now retired, so she devoted herself to activities in the Dalmatian Cultural Society in Auckland. For her own pleasure, she grows flowers, especially dahlias, roses, lilies and anything else she likes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9309\" src=\"https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230312-WA0000-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230312-WA0000-1-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230312-WA0000-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230312-WA0000-1-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230312-WA0000-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230312-WA0000-1-400x401.jpg 400w, https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230312-WA0000-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 Mara Vitasovich<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9312\" src=\"https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Neda-Sestanovic-iz-Lumbarde-1-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Neda-Sestanovic-iz-Lumbarde-1-200x277.jpg 200w, https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Neda-Sestanovic-iz-Lumbarde-1-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Neda-Sestanovic-iz-Lumbarde-1-400x553.jpg 400w, https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Neda-Sestanovic-iz-Lumbarde-1.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 Neda \u0160estanovi\u0107, Mara&#8217;s mother<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9315\" src=\"https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/obitelj-Skokandic-1-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/obitelj-Skokandic-1-200x148.jpg 200w, https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/obitelj-Skokandic-1-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/obitelj-Skokandic-1-400x297.jpg 400w, https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/obitelj-Skokandic-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 Skokandi\u0107 family<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9318\" src=\"https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/picnic-birthday-with-the-family-2003-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/picnic-birthday-with-the-family-2003-1-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/picnic-birthday-with-the-family-2003-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/picnic-birthday-with-the-family-2003-1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/virtualnimuzej.aspira.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/picnic-birthday-with-the-family-2003-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 Birthday picnic of the Vitasovich family<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Branka Bezi\u0107 Filipovi\u0107<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARA VITASOVI\u0106 was born on February 2, 1953 in Te Kopuru, in the Northland,\u00a0 New Zealand, in the family of Andrija Skokandi\u0107 from \u017drnovo and Neda, n\u00e9e \u0160estanovi\u0107 from Lumbarda, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-zealand"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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