Joseph John & Anna Veronica (Berish) Timko Family

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Joseph was born Jozsef Timko Csanovsky in Kudlovce in the Austria-Hungary on March.17, 1893 and Anna was born at home in Riddesburg, Broadtop Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania.. [Note: The portion of the Austria-Hungary Empire where my Dzedo was born would later become the county of Czechoslovakia in 1918 after the end of World War I]

Joseph John Timko Sr. and Anna Veronica Berish married on September 14, 1914 in Dixonville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. The young couple lived in Indiana County until 1928, when Joseph gave up being a coal miner for the more secure profession of being a steel worker in their new home in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio.

Family Trees

• Berish Family Tree
• Timko Family Tree

Family Stories

Over the years many, most of our ancestors have shared family stories with other family members. Here are a few indexes to such stories.

• Berish Family Stories
• Timko Family Stories

Their Ten Children

Joseph & Anna (Berish) Timko celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary with their nine children. (1949) L to R - Albert, Stephen, Mary, Edward, Joseph Sr., Joseph Jr, Anna, Anna Joan, Emma, Elizabeth and Dorothy.

The couple would have eventually have ten children with eight of them being born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania and the remaining two being born in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio.

• Mary Martha Timko
• Anna Joan Timko
• Susanna Timko
• Joseph John Timko Jr.
• Stephen Michael Timko
• Elizabeth Margaret Timko
• Edward John Timko
• Albert James Timko
• Emma Marie Timko
• Dorothy Alice Timko

Their Family Veterans

• Emily Jo Burin (granddaughter) - U.S. Air Force
• George Edward Burin (son-in-law) - U.S. Navy
• George Yeager Campbell (son-in-law) - U.S. Army
• Richard Andrew Green (son-in-law) - U.S. Navy
• Edward Anthony Grohosky (son-in-law) - U.S. Air Force
• Edward Anthony Grohosky (grandson) - U.S. Air Force
• Randall Gerard Grohosky (grandson) - U.S. Air Force
• Herbert Leroy Parker Jr (son-in-law) - U.S. Navy
• John David Petrilla (grandson) - U.S. Marine Corps
• Paul Albert Petrilla (grandson) - U.S. Marine Corps
• Michael Joseph Politsky (son-in-law) - U.S. Army
• Robert Michael Politsky (grandson) - U.S. Air Force
• Albert James Timko (son) - U.S. Marine Corps
• Albert James Timko (grandson) - U.S. Army
• Allen Jeffery Timko (grandson) - U.S. Marine Corps
• Edward John Timko (son) - U.S. Army Air Corps
• Joseph John Timko Jr. (son) - U.S. Navy
• Joseph Ronald Timko (grandson) - U.S. Marine Corps
• Stephen Michael Timko (son) - U.S. Marine Corps
• Leo Albert Wanner (son-in-law) - U.S. Army
• Simon Yonut Jr - (son-in-law) - U.S. Army

Their Thirty-Eight Grandchildren

The children of Joseph and Anna presented their parents with 38 grandchildren. Twenty-one of their grandchildren were boys and seventeen of them were girls. However, Joseph, who died in 1954, would not live long enough to see the last nineteen of his grandchildren enter this world. Only his wife Anna would live long enough to be a part of their lives.

• Elizabeth Jane Petrilla

• Paul Albert Petrilla
• John David Petrilla
• Joseph Ronald Timko
• Robert Michael Politsky
• Stephen Michael Timko
• Dean Jerome Timko
• Susan Margaret Timko
• Joyce Marie Timko
• Albert James Timko Jr.
• George Edward Timko Jr.
• Allen Jeffrey Timko
• Edward Anthony Grohosky Jr.
• James Joseph Campbell
• Emily Jo Burin
• Edward John Timko Jr.
• Joanne Louise Timko
• Sara Anne Campbell
• Sheryl Ann Timko
• Kenneth Joseph Timko
• Janice Lynn Burin
• Paulette Suzette Timko
• Thomas Michael Burin
• Erica Megan Grohosky
• Donald Judson Timko
• John Joseph Timko
• George Michael Campbell
• Melisa Lynne Grohosky
• Jeannette Francis Timko
• Louise Karen Timko
• Margaret Louise Timko
• Randall Gerard Grohosky
• Elizabeth Therese Campbell
• Marjorie Anne Campbell
• Mary Beth Timko
• Dorothy Marie Campbell
• Timothy James Timko
• Ronald Lawrence Timko