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Mary Frances Betik Trojacek

25 Dec 1929 – 17 Sep 2020

Birth25 Dec 1929
Death17 Sep 2020
CemeterySaint Joseph Cemetery
Ennis , Ellis County , Texas , USA
Added bysnipps on 19 Nov 2021
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Mary Betik Trojacek, 90, of Ennis, died peacefully wrapped in the love of her family, on September 17, 2020. Burial will be at St. Joseph's Cemetery. Mary was born on December 25, 1929, in Ennis, Texas, to the late Joe and Frances Marusak Betik, the third of ten children. She attended Creechville schools and graduated from St. John Catholic High School. It was in 1947 that she continued her education at St. Paul Nursing School in Dallas, Texas. She received a three-year scholarship from the Dallas Women’s Chamber of Commerce because of the insistence of Sr. Macaria to write an essay. She received her certificate and license as a Registered Nurse, and during her 44-year career, she worked in Dallas and Ennis hospitals and exhibited her diversity and love of nursing in numerous positions. She worked the Floor, Labor/Delivery, Surgery, Emergency Room, taught LVN classes, and was also Director of Nursing. A courtship that started across Creechville Road continued while she was in nursing school and her “sweetie” was at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. She married Jerry Trojacek on August 5, 1950, at St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church. They soon moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he was stationed at Warren AF base. She was strong in her Catholic faith and attended St. John Catholic Church and went to Sunday Mass. She and Jerry were “faithful regulars” for the Perpetual Adoration Chapel. Mary was a member of the Catholic Daughters, KJZT, and the Golden Crusaders. Some of her favorite devotions included the Stations of the Cross, The Sacred Heart, and the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Even as she napped, her lips moved in prayer. Mary and Jerry worked side by side in the trials, challenges, and pleasures of farm life raising a variety of animals and cultivating an assortment of crops. Their green thumbs definitely shined as they truck farmed and grew a wide range of fresh herbs and vegetables that they sold at the Dallas Farmers Market. They had an impressive clientele. The plum orchard was started from saplings that originated from Moravia Czechoslovakia which had been passed down through the generations. All the pecan trees around their home, Mary started with pecans some fifty years ago. After the truck farm, they started the 9T Farms Nursery which they owned and operated for over 20 years. They had trees, shrubs, plants, flowers, and vegetables of all kinds. A lot of the inventory, Mary started by seeds or cuttings in small pots and transplanted to larger pots which she did after she had finished her nursing shift. She was never idle. School buses loaded with children would come for field trips to 9T Nursery, and after the tour, they were escorted to a potting soil area. All the children got to “play” in the dirt as they were given a small pot and a Marigold plant. They got back on the buses after refreshments and they took their planted treasure home to their moms. Her favorite flowers were red carnations. Some of her favorite things were to pick cotton, shell pecans, and black-eye peas. She loved games, and Scrabble and 42 were some of her favorites. Give her a jigsaw, crossword, or Sudoku puzzle and that was a piece of heaven for her. She loved reunions and family gatherings. Wheel of Fortune, Laura Ingraham, and Molly B were some things she enjoyed. She had delight going to WinStar and loved those “Lucky Lemmings”. She was an excellent seamstress, making her children’s Sunday clothes, prom and bridesmaid dresses, and sport coats. Her imagination was really displayed in the costumes she made for school functions and masquerade parties. She dressed many Barbie dolls lavishly for the St. John bazaars. During her retirement years, Mary and Jerry loved to travel. They went to Europe and visited most of the United States. She had scrapbooks for each of these adventures. She studied painting during her retirement years and became an accomplished artist. Her oil canvasses of Guardian Angels, hang in most of the grandchildren’s rooms. She excelled with oil paintings of flowers, landscapes, sunsets, bluebonnets, Randolph AF base chapel, cactus, and pump jacks. She was proud of her Catholic Czech Heritage and culture. She wanted to make sure that this legacy was passed on to future generations, so during her retirement, she authored a book, “Beyond Ellis Island” which told of the struggles and life of the early Czech immigrants in the United States. She also spearheaded and was the writer and artist for the St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church memorial positioned in front of St John’s Church. This memorial stands as a testament to the faith and dedication of the earlier Czech founders and congregation to the Church and the Czech Saint John Nepomucene. The lives of the earlier generations will remain in the hearts of future generations to come and not be forgotten. She loved her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They all brought her tremendous joy when they came to visit and all were her favorites. She was preceded in death by her sisters: Lillie, Helen and Mildred; and brothers, Joe and Bernard. Survivors include her husband of 70 years, Jerry; their children: Donna Isom and her husband, Larry, Gary and his wife, Karen, Rick, Joan, Mary Bruce and her husband, Richard, Chris, and Jeff and his wife, Melanie; nine grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; sisters, Evelyn Slovak and her husband, Danny, and Ella Heard and her husband, Bill; brothers, Wesley Betik and his wife, Vera, and Bob Betik and his wife, Barbara; sisters-in-law, Nancy Betik and her husband, Bernard, and Jeannie Trojacek and her husband, Otto; and many other relatives and friends. A3

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