Sylvian & Lilly Winterringer Jelinek

WINTERRINGER JELINEK PERRY

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 9/15/2010 at 20:02:29

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Sylvian and Lilly Winterringer Jelinek
By Muriel C Winterringer Meyer

Lilly Bell Winterringer, the daughter of Eva May Perry and Richard Charles ‘Dick’ Winterringer, was born August 2, 1906. She was born on a quarter-section farm, owned by her parents, near Coleridge, Nebraska.

She told me, in a taped interview on February 4, 1980, that she not only went to a one-room country school, but after graduating from Hartington, Nebraska High School, she also taught in one for a couple of years. It was north of Randolph, Nebraska, there were twelve pupils.

She was married to Sylvian Jelinek on December 23, 1939, at Tekamah, Nebraska. Sylvian was born February 19, 1908.

They lived in Sioux City for over twenty years. During that time Lilly was employed at the T S Martin Company and Fantle’s for several years, in charge of alterations. Sylvian was a mechanic, employed at American Auto Parts.

They moved to South Sioux City, Nebraska, about 1971. There they became members of the St Paul United Methodist Church, and the Senior Citizens Group of South Sioux. Lilly took an active part in the Church Circle. They took several short trips, after retiring, but mostly enjoyed their new home.

They had no children.

Sylvian continues to live in South Sioux and enjoys spending some time at the Senior Citizens Center. He went with the bus tour to the Grotto at West Bend, Iowa, last fall. He has a brother in California, who keeps wanting him to visit there. As long as he is well, he says he can manage, but wonders about any illness that might strike.