1928
Mary
2025
Mary Papinko
June 10, 1928 — February 24, 2025
Mary Papinko passed away on February 24, 2025 from complications of congestive heart failure. She was 96 years old.
Mary was born in Chicago Illinois on June 10, 1928 as Mary Theresa Loboyko to Mary and John Loboyko, who had both previously immigrated from Ukraine. She lived with her parents and her four siblings on Leavitt Street, in what is now Chicago’s Ukrainian Village, and was also known by her middle name, Theresa, to her siblings and family. Mary attended St. Nicholas Elementary School and worked several depression‐era jobs while attending Holy Name High School and Mundelein College before starting what became her professional career in sales and as a buyer for Marshall Fields. In 1955 she married John Papinko who became her loving husband for nearly 50 years before his passing in 2005.
In 1961 Mary and John moved from Chicago to the Phoenix Arizona area, settling there for the next 40 years where she made a loving home for her young family. They built their house in Tempe, and hand built a summer cabin in the mountains outside of Prescott, all while Mary continued her career in department store sales and management. Mary was active in the Arizona Ukrainian community and a volunteer and parish officer at the newly formed Assumption of the BVM Ukrainian Catholic Church in Phoenix. In 2000, Mary and John returned to the Chicago area to spend the remainder of their retirement years closer to siblings, family, and friends, settling in Norridge and joining St. Joseph Ukrainian Parish.
Mary was preceded in death by her husband John, her brother Eugene Loboyko, and sisters Helen Masley, Olga Kykta and Sophie Strawniak. She is survived by her three children, daughter Regina Duzinsky, son John Papinko and son Gregory Papinko, along with her many grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren, as well as most of her many nieces and nephews.
Visitation Sunday, March 2, 2025 from 2:00 until 7:00 p.m., Panachyda will be held at 4:00pm, at Cumberland Chapels, 8300 W. Lawrence, Norridge IL, 60706. Funeral Services Begin Monday at 10:00 a.m. at the funeral home and will proceed to St. Joseph Ukrainian Catholic Church for Funeral Mass at 11:00 a.m., followed by Interment at St. Nicholas Cemetery. For moe information please call (708)456-8300
Mary was born in Chicago Illinois on June 10, 1928 as Mary Theresa Loboyko to Mary and John Loboyko, who had both previously immigrated from Ukraine. She lived with her parents and her four siblings on Leavitt Street, in what is now Chicago’s Ukrainian Village, and was also known by her middle name, Theresa, to her siblings and family. Mary attended St. Nicholas Elementary School and worked several depression‐era jobs while attending Holy Name High School and Mundelein College before starting what became her professional career in sales and as a buyer for Marshall Fields. In 1955 she married John Papinko who became her loving husband for nearly 50 years before his passing in 2005.
In 1961 Mary and John moved from Chicago to the Phoenix Arizona area, settling there for the next 40 years where she made a loving home for her young family. They built their house in Tempe, and hand built a summer cabin in the mountains outside of Prescott, all while Mary continued her career in department store sales and management. Mary was active in the Arizona Ukrainian community and a volunteer and parish officer at the newly formed Assumption of the BVM Ukrainian Catholic Church in Phoenix. In 2000, Mary and John returned to the Chicago area to spend the remainder of their retirement years closer to siblings, family, and friends, settling in Norridge and joining St. Joseph Ukrainian Parish.
Mary was preceded in death by her husband John, her brother Eugene Loboyko, and sisters Helen Masley, Olga Kykta and Sophie Strawniak. She is survived by her three children, daughter Regina Duzinsky, son John Papinko and son Gregory Papinko, along with her many grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren, as well as most of her many nieces and nephews.
Visitation Sunday, March 2, 2025 from 2:00 until 7:00 p.m., Panachyda will be held at 4:00pm, at Cumberland Chapels, 8300 W. Lawrence, Norridge IL, 60706. Funeral Services Begin Monday at 10:00 a.m. at the funeral home and will proceed to St. Joseph Ukrainian Catholic Church for Funeral Mass at 11:00 a.m., followed by Interment at St. Nicholas Cemetery. For moe information please call (708)456-8300
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Visitation
Cumberland Chapels
Panachyda 4:00 p.m.
Prayers and Final Viewing
Cumberland Chapels
Funeral Service
St. Joseph Ukrainian Catholic Church
Interment
St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery
Prayers will take place at the indoor chapel.
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