Luba Ruzicka

Luba Haviar was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1940, the daughter of the eminent Slovak cardiologist Dr. Vladimir Haviar. She attended Comenius University where she majored in foreign languages, centering on French. Her early plans to travel to Africa to teach French were derailed when she met the Slovakian doctor Fano Ruzicka.

They fell in love, married and started their journey to America. After stops in New York, Wisconsin and Arizona they finally settled, with their two children Vladimir and Renata, in Taylor, Texas, just outside Austin.

Fano went to work at the Johns Community Clinic and Hospital and Luba began her travel agency “Luba’s Travel”.

She now lives in The Hills, TX, near Austin, and has four American grandchildren.