Obit: Zink, Herman Oscar #2 (1900 - 1959)

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Surnames: Zink, Schulz, Amacher, Anderson, Danielson, Dolan, Holtzhausen, Olsen, Lieders, Thompson, Selinski, Carstensen, Fischer, Agnew, Wilger

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 01/15/1959

Zink, Herman Oscar (1 Sept. 1900 - 12 Jan. 1959)

Herman O. Zink, 58, died Monday morning at 6:00 a.m. at St. Joseph’s hospital, Marshfield, of a general infection. He had been ill since about Tuesday and was admitted to the hospital Thursday.

There was a rosary service at 8:00 o’clock Wednesday evening at the Zink Funeral Home. On Thursday, a solemn requiem High Mass was sung at St. Bernard’s Catholic church at 9:00 o’clock, after which internment was made in Hillside cemetery, Marshfield.

The Rev. Raymond Schulz was celebrant of the funeral Mass, the Rev. John Agnew, Marshfield, deacon, and the Rev. Norbert Wilger, Stevens Point, sub-deacon.

Pallbearers were H. J. Amacher, Kenneth Anderson, W. G. Danielson, C. T. Dolan, Al Holtzhausen, Norman Olsen, Orville Lieders, and Ray Thompson.

Herman Oscar Zink was born Sept. 1, 1900 at Marshfield and received his education in the Marshfield schools. He attended the Goodman School of Embalming at Milwaukee and was a licensed mortician. He was employed at the Rembs Funeral Home at Marshfield before coming to Abbotsford in 1935, where he was proprietor of the Zink Funeral Home. He also served Abbotsford as night officer.

He is survived by the widow, the former Catherine Selinski, whom he married June 24, 1933, at Junction City; four daughters, Angela, student at the University of Wisconsin; Mrs. Baldwin (Sandra) Carstensen of Milwaukee; Judith and Catherine, at home and a son, George, at home. There is one grand daughter.

A sister, Mrs. Edith Fischer, and a brother, Leonard Zink, of Marshfield, also survive. His parents and one sister preceded him in death.