When Frank Bernard Trusilo was born on 21 October 1926, his father, Adolph Bronislaw Trusilo, was 48 and his mother, Anastazja Magdalena Jocz, was 38. He married Eleanor Ord on 8 January 1948, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. He died on 15 May 1981, at the age of 54.