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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 271698
Title: Mark A. Trechock
Date: 1/26/1947-6/28/2025
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Inscription/Marks: 1/26/1947
Summary: Mark A. Trechock, 78, of Dickinson, ND, passed away June 28, 2025. A funeral service was held July 3, 2025, at Stevenson Funeral Home, In Dickinson. Mark Alan Trechock was born on January 26, 1947, in Minneapolis, MN, to Frank and Eleanor Trechock. His family lived with his five aunts and uncles who doted on him. Mark ran track and cross country at Central High School. He earned a BA from Augsburg College in 1969, where he was the editor of the college newspaper. He married college sweetheart, Aimee Brynildson, and they moved to New Jersey where he attended Princeton Theological Seminary. As a Lutheran pastor he served congregations in Wyndmere, ND, Owatonna, MN, and Denver, CO. In 1987, he was awarded a PhD from Iliff School of Theology. He and Aimee divorced but had two children, whom he treasured and showered with love. In 1993, he moved to Dickinson, where he began work at Dakota Resource Council. The organization thrived under his leadership. While playing on the volleyball league in Dickinson, he met Janeen Nichols and after a brief courtship, a ten-year hiatus and a reunion, they wed in a three-day celebration in 2007. Mark was a devoted husband to Janeen and loving father to her children, whom he helped to raise as his own. Together they traveled, played games, and spent time with the community. They enjoyed 18 happy years together until he passed on June 28, 2025 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s. An accomplished poet, he had more than 200 poems published in journals and books. He was working to publish a book of his poems before he became ill. He loved writing and reading, hiking, studying languages, and playing games, especially Scrabble. If you ever played against him, you were sure to lose terribly! He spoke fluent Spanish and lived and traveled in Argentina and across Central and South America. Mark could often be found listening to the Spanish radio call while watching his favorite sport, baseball. He loved the Twins and enjoyed reading up on baseball trivia. He played golf when the weather would allow him and could be found identifying birds outside his window, walking his dogs Daisy and Patches, cooking delicious meals, and making silly faces and jokes. Mark was a devoted father - showering his five children with unconditional love and understanding. He was always willing to read another book, play catch again, lend an ear to their troubles, and offer his support. He was a dedicated public servant, working for community justice and to ensure the prairie lands he loved were protected for coming generations. He threw himself into his work and judged his own success by how well his community thrived. He had a gift of speaking to anyone in a way that put them at ease and made them feel they were long-lost friends. He treasured his friends, staying connected with buddies from high school and college until recently. Mark is survived by the love of his life, Janeen Nichols, and their three children, Lexie (and fiancee Travis), Chandler, and Nathan; his children, Hannah Ring and Mary Trechock, their spouses, Christopher Ring and Jonathan Geary, and his four grandchildren, Aidan and Molly Ring, and Stella and Amos Geary.
Red ID: FND_I_79194 Image ID: 529797 Image Notes: FND001 271698

Collection: FND001 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Date: -

Summary: The North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program is sponsored by the North Dakota Funeral Directors Association. The life stories of deceased North Dakotans are featured in an archvied collection. Current partners in the project are Eastgate Funeral & Cremation Services, Bismarck Evans Funeral Homes, Carrington and New Rockford Everson-Coughlin Funeral Home, Williston Fulkerson Funeral Home, Tioga Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City Fulkerson Stevenson Funeral Home, Williston Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck Springan Stevenson Funeral Home, Stanley Stevenson Funeral Home, Dickinson These funeral homes provide recent obituaries to the Foundation, where staff and volunteers format, edit and archive each memorial. The memorials are posted, and copies are sent to the family for their input and approval. The listing currently features more than 13,000 memorials, and is constantly updated as new memorials and histories are received.

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