Obit: Pink, Frank (1874 - 1962)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Pink, Buening, Florence, Annen, Tetzlaff, Hoffman

----- Source: Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark Co., Wis.) 11/22/1962

----- Pink, Frank (21 MAR 1874 - 18 NOV 1962)

Frank Pink, 88, Loyal (Clark Co., Wis.), died Sunday evening at 8:45 at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, of old age complications. He had been a patient there for the past two weeks.

Funeral services were scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Anthony's Catholic Church with Rev. Norbert E. King officiating, and burial in the parish cemetery. A general rosary services was held Tuesday evening at the Myre Funeral Home.

Mr. Pink was born March 21, 1874 in Lancaster and received his education there. He was married May 15, 1900 at Lancaster to Christine Buening. Forty-six years ago they came to Clark County and settled on a farm in the town of Loyal.

Following the death of his wife in November of 1930, Mr. Pink lived with his children, except for the past three years which were spent at the Greenwood home for the Aged and at the Bethel Convalescent Home at Arpin. He was a member of St. Anthony's Catholic Church.

He is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Joseph (Dorothy) Florence, Auburndale; Mrs. William (Florence) Annen, Loyal; Mrs. Ernest (Agnes) Tetzlaff, Rib Lake; and Miss Mary Pink, Marshfield; four sons, Robert and Mark, Union Grove; Mike, Lancaster; and Herbert, Rockford, Ill.; sixteen grandchildren; fifteen great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Anna Hoffman, Lancaster. Four brothers and a sister preceded him in death.