Harris C. "Shooky" Fink 1917 - 1988
FINK, ARNDT, VIRAK, BREESER
Posted By: Errin Wilker (email)
Date: 2/12/2007 at 11:33:15
THE PASSING OF A BASEBALL LEGEND
Harris "Shooky" C. Fink, 71, longtime New Albin youth baseball coach, died Thursday, Oct. 20, 1988, in Lutheran Hospital, LaCrosse, WI, after suffering a heart attack.
He was born June 8, 1917, in New Albin to John and Mayme (Arndt) Fink.
A 1936 graduate of New Albin High School, he later moved to Chicago, where he worked as a machinist for 17 years. It was there that he married Lorraine Virak on Dec. 19, 1942.
In 1957, he and his wife returned to New Albin and he worked as a custodian at New Albin Elementary School. He also began coaching Little League, Peewee, Babe Ruth and adult baseball teams in the summer months, and helped with the Lansing Kee High School team during the school year. His youth teams won Stars of Tomorrow championships in LaCrosse, and several of his young players went on to star for Kee High, which won state Class 1A titles.
In 1980, Fink was the subject of a story in Atlantic Monthly magazine and, in 1981, appeared in a national news program feature on baseball and New Albin.
He was a recipient of the Iowa Juvenile Probation Officer State Award, and a member of United Methodist Church.
Survivors are his wife; two sons, Jerome of La Crosse, WI, and Dana of Perry, IA; a daughter, Sharon Breeser of New Albin; six grandchildren; and a brother, Delbert "Bud" Fink of New Albin.
He was preceded in death by a brother and a granddaughter .
Services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday in United Methodist Church. The Rev. Thomas Mattson officiated. Burial was in the New Albin City Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Jerry Fink, Jaime Fink, Pat Heiderscheit, Eric Guth, Robert Fink and Joe Fink.
Haugen-Roble Funeral Home, Caledonia, MN, was in charge of arrangements.
Source: Allamakee Journal, Lansing, Iowa
Allamakee Obituaries maintained by Sharyl Ferrall.
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