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Surnames: Boberg, Fink, Hardy
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Edith I. Fink, 86, retired school teacher.
Edith Irene Boberg Fink, 86 a former resident if 3301 S. Ninth St. A retired Tippecanoe
County and Lafayette elementary school teacher, died Tuesday morning in the Friendship
Silver Cross Manor Nursing Home in Rock Island, Ill., where she had lived since Dec. 14.
Mrs. Fink was born Nov 5, 1903 in Lafayette. She had lived most of her live In the Wea
Township. She married Harry Fink in 1931 at Niagara Falls, NY.,and he died Feb. 6, 1982.
Mrs. Fink graduated from Romney High School and attended Purdue University and Madam
Blakers Collage in Indianapolis.
She taught elementary school at Shadeland, Wea and West Point and at Highland School in
Lafayette, retiring in 1961.
Mrs. Fink was a member of the Immanuel United Church of Christ, the Mary and Martha Circle
at the church, the Wea Chapter C.I. of PEO Sisterhood and the National and Indiana Retired
Teachers Association.
Surviving is a son Harry Fink Jr. of East Moline, Ill, a brother Bert Boberg of Romney;
and a sister Betty Hardy of Frankfort.
Service was held at Hippensteel Funeral Home, Rev. Kenneth L. Sherry officiating Interment
at Fink Cemetery.
Journal & Courier Sept. 12, 1990.