Bio: Trinko, Father John
Contact: Stan
----Source: Greenwood Gleaner Clips found in Greenwood Library Scrapbook, Census
Records, Anne Trinko
Cramer
Surnames:
Father
John Trinko
Willard, Clark Co., Wisconsin
Father
John Trinko in 1937 Father John Trinko
served the Willard, Holy
Family Catholic Church. He also belonged to the prestigious
Greenwood Commercial Club and was present for the
Banquet held in honor of the unveiling of the
Peace Monument given to the city by Ernest Durig in 1937. He was
also one of the area residents who had a bust made by the artist (above
right).
Responses
"Fr. Trinko was born Joseph (or possibly Jozef) Trinko (Trinco?) on March
17, 1907 to Michele (Mikele/Mike) and Marijana (Mariana/Mary) Trinko (Trinco)
in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. He spent most of his later life in
Lemont, Illinois, at the Franciscan monastery there. He died on October 10,
1969, on the way from Chicago to Lemont, when we "happened to be" visiting
from South Dakota!" Anne Trinko
Cramer.
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Father John Vianney Trinko, O. F. M. (1907 - 1969)
He was born in a home on 19th Street, in the Pilsen area of Chicago, on
March 17, 1907, the son of Michael and Mary Trinko. He was baptized with the
name of Joseph in St. Stephen's Church, Chicago.
He attended St. Paul and St. Stephen parochial schools, and he graduated
from Quigley preparatory seminary, Chicago. He was accepted in the
Franciscan order on August 29, 1927, and pursued philosophical studies in
Green Bay, Wisconsin. After finishing there, he was sent to what is now
Slovenia, and studied theology at the university of Ljubljana, in the city
of the same name. Most Rev. Gregor Rozman ordained him to the priesthood on
July 2, 1933.
Then he returned to the U. S. and celebrated his first mass at St.
Stepehen's Chicago. In or around 1936 he was named as a pastor of Holy
Family Church in Willard, Wisconsin.
From 1938 to 1942 he had returned to Slovenia, to serve in the Franciscan
province there (which was and is the mother province of the Commissariat of
the Holy Cross in the US.)
After war broke out in Europe, and Yugoslavia was invaded by the Axis
forces, he returned to the US in 1942. Here he was stationed at various
times at St. George, Chicago; St. Therese, Johnstown, PA; St. Cyril, New
York City; and St. John Vianny, Highland Park, Michigan. He also spent some
years at St. Mary' s Seminary, Lemont, IL.
Towards the end of his life, he had heart problems. Returning from his visit
to his relatives in Chicago, he had a heart attack and was transported to
McNeal Hospital in Berwin, IL., where he died. This was on October 10, 1969.
Funeral services were held in the chapel of St. Mary s, Lemont, and burial
took place in St. Francis cemetery on the seminary grounds.
Sincerely,
Fr. Metod
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