Joyce Trione

On Jan. 27, 1951, she married Gordon Trione in St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Calumet. She has finally reunited with Gordon since his passing on July 4, 2012.

Joyce attended the local schools graduating from Calumet High School class of 1941.

She was very fond of mentioning her love for being a member of the Girl Scouts during the very early years of that empowering organization. While in high school, she worked as a waitress, with her sisters and mother, in her father’s Laurium restaurant called the Cozy Garden.

She then went on to attend and graduate in 1945 from St Joseph’s School of Nursing in Hancock with a Registered Nursing diploma, which was a dream of hers from a very young age. Her last six months of nursing school was spent at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Seattle, Washington, as a cadet nurse in anticipation of being deployed into World War II. Fortunately, the war ended just before her graduation.

After that, she returned home and worked as a nurse at the then-Calumet Public Hospital. She retired from nursing as her family grew to five children. While raising her family, she did some private nursing with family and friends. In the 1980s, she became a member of a local volunteer hospice organization, where she was a hospice nurse for 10 years.

She was a longtime and active member of the Lady Elks in Calumet and the St. Paul the Apostle Church Women’s Club and Altar Society. She made numerous friends doing the activities she loved so much, including cross country skiing with the “Skeaters” group of friends and golfing, which she continued with until the grand old age of 90.

She was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother.

She is survived by her children, David (Jean) Trione of Wausau, Mary (Sam) Graci of Marquette, Michael (Beth) Trione of Mundelein, Illinois, Nancy (Dan) Nakkula of DeForest, Wisconsin, and Carol (Paul) Yahr of Brighton, Michigan; 15 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her sisters, Mary Cowan, June Galetto, Betty Katakowski and Grace Langen; brothers, Bill Galetto and Jim Galetto; special aunt, Angeline “Angie” Schneller; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Friends may call at the Erickson Crowley Peterson Funeral Home in Calumet, on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, from 9-10:45 a.m. for visitation.

A Mass of Christian Burial will take place following the visitation on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, at 11 a.m. at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Calumet with Fr. Gracious Pulimoottil.

Burial will be at the Lake View Cemetery in Calumet.

The family would like to express their sincere appreciation to the staff of Wood Aven and Aspirus Hospice of Wausau for their compassionate care and support during Joyce’s final journey.

Online condolences may be left for the family at www.ericksoncrowleypeterson.com.

In lieu of other expressions of sympathy memorials may be given in Joyce’s memory to St. Paul the Apostle Church 301 8th Street Calumet, MI 49913.