The Daily Times Herald, Tuesday, 1 May 2001

Mass of the Christian Burial for Vera Fink of Manning will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 3, 2001, at Sacred Heart Church in Manning with the Revs. Laurence Burns and James McAlpin officiating.
Mrs. Fink, 92, died on Monday, April 30,2001 at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll.
Mass servers will be Chelsie Croghan and Ashley Croghan. Gift bearers will be Viola Molloy and Sister Marie Molloy.
Casket bearers and lectors will be her grandchildren. Burial will be at Sacred Heart Cemetery in Manning.
Visitation will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at Ohde Funeral Home in Manning. There will be a rosary at 4 by the Catholic Daughters of America and a 7 p.m. prayer service by Rev. McAlpin.
A daughter of Patrick and Amelia (Smith) Molloy, she was born 1 Aug 1908 on a farm in Great Oak Township near Emmetsburg, in Palo Alto County.
She attended country school near home and graduated from Saint Mary's Academy in Emmetsburg.
After graduation, she attended Des Moines University where she obtained her teaching certificate and returned to teach for one year at an Emmetsburg country school.
She then moved to Des Moines and worked for Armand Cosmetic Company. On June 6, 1938 she was united in marriage to Orval Fink at Ayrshire. The couple moved several times before settling in Manning in 1946. Mr. Fink worked as a pharmacist while Mrs. Fink was a homemaker raising their four children. After Mr. Fink died in 1988, Mrs. Fink lived at home until 1994, when she went to live with her daughter in Glidden. She had been in declining health since the beginning of the year. She was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Manning and held numerous church offices. Mrs. Fink is survived by her children, Raymond Fink and his wife, Laura, of Frisco, Texas, Jeanette and her husband, Clet Winker of Glidden, Dorothy and her husband, William Colbensen or Littleton, Colo. and James Fink and his wife, Mary, of Park Ridge, Ill; 14 grandchildren; 12 great grandchildren; and two sisters, Viola Molloy of Emmetsburg and Sister Mary Molloy of Dubuque. Besides her parents and husband she was preceded in death by four brothers, Charles, Clarence, Ray and Edmund Molloy; four sisters Virginia and Loretta Molloy, Irene McGuire and her husband James, and Gertrude Burns and her husband James; and two sisters-in-law, Edith Mitchell and Ethelyn Chase.