Mirjana Ljubenkovic, 94, a resident of Florida since July 2004 coming from Newark, NJ, passed away on Saturday, September 7, 2019 at Advent Health in Wauchula, Florida. Mirjana was born in Bela Crkva, Yugoslavia on April 7, 1925.

She had been a member of the Greek Orthodox Church and had been a homemaker most of her life.

She is survived by her grandson Alexander Shah of Fort Myers, Fl. Close family friends Dr. Daniella Weinberger, Dr. Iva Bozovic, Gail Miller, Dr. David Aitken, Nicholas Irra, Officer Josh Sorensen, Liliana Markanovic, Radisa Bogdanovic, Karen Liehan and Sarah Morales.


Mirjana was a widow of Engineer Bogdan Ljubenkovic for 61 years and together they travelled all around the world on projects for economic development. Mirjana was of Serbian-Romanian heritage born in the Danubian Region of Vojvodina in the beautiful fertile South-Hungarian plain. Mirjana worked tirelessly all her life for the benefit of her family and friends, as the pillar of the Ljubenkovic Family. Granny was extremely committed and deeply loving of her grandson Alex and her daughter Svetlana. The only living family left now Alexander Ljubenkovic Shah, her loving and grieving grandson, who is inconsolable and carries her in his heart. Mirjana was a practical person and historian by interest who supported the education and studies of her daughter and grandson. She moved to America after the 1999 Clinton War on Serbia over Kosovo to help her daughter fight cancer and to escape danger, her son-in-law called Mirjana "A true war mom" in praise. For the past 20 years, Mirjana was living together with her grandson Alex; out of those years, the last 14 were spent alone with Alex after her daughter and husband passed away from cancer. Mirjana is the love of the life of her devoted grandson, and he will miss her terribly in the coming years. Mirjana's hobbies were family photography, books of novels, family themed tv-series, cooking and women's issues magazines and great cooking and housekeeping of her own. Mirjana was a land management office secretary when she met her future husband during the war in 1944. She left her career to take care of the new family unit she founded with Bogdan. She readily helped anyone in need. Mirjana was fond of saying: "Take care of your own first before anyone else because priorities in life are a number one priority." Mirjana's magical charm and voice will be sorely missed. I lost gold; I lost the Gold of My Life. The magic golden shine of Relativistic speeds at the most fundamental level of existence that still could smile at me and was thus even higher than Gold as Love stands supreme.
Written with Love By: Alexander Shah