TRUMBULL--Services will take place Thursday for John T. Cullinan, 78, of 6448 Main Street, a retired Superior Court Judge, who died Monday in the North Fairfield Geriatric Center.

The funeral will be conducted at 10:15 am in the Redgate-Hennessey Funeral Home, Main Street and Gorham Place, at at 11 o'clock in Our Lady of Assumption Church, Fairfield. Burial will be in St. Michael's Cemetery, Stratford.

Cullinan was born in Bridgeport and was a lifelong area resident. He attended St. John's Preparatory school in Danvers, Mass., and graduated with honours from Notre Dame University in 1928. He was a graduate of Yale University Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1931. He received an honorary doctor of laws degree at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

He was appointed judege of the Common Pleas Court in 1942 and in 1950 he was elevated to the Superior Court bench after serving as prosecuting attorney of the Bridgeport City Court and assistant corporation counsel of Bridgeport, as well as an assistant U.S. attorney for Connecticut. He was past president of the Connecticut Young Democrats.

Cullinan was elected town chairman in 1934. He was director of Bridgeport Hospital and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Community Chest and Council of Bridgeport, the Catholic Charitable Bureau of Bridgeport, the University of Bridgeport, and the Boy's Club of Bridgeport. He was an advisory board member for Albertus Magnus College, New Haven.

He also served as a member of the Board of Editors of the Connecticut Law Journal and associate editor and secretary.

In 1944, he headed the wholesale division in the $690,000 Greater Red Cross War Fund campaign and was president of the Bridgeport district of the Connecticut Cancer Society. He was appointed Connecticut state chairman of the 1949 March of Dimes.

Survivors include a sister, Miss Catherine L. Cullinan of Monroe.