Swink, Elbert 1899-1982

SWINK, CURRY, BURROWS, LUNKENHEIMER, REINBOLDT

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Date: 6/2/2021 at 14:14:05

Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune, Storm Lake, Buena Vista, Iowa Wednesday, June 30, 1982 Page 2

Elbert Swink, Alta, dies Thursday

ALTA - Services for Elbert Swink, 82, of Alta, was held on June 28 at the St. Mary's Catholic Church, Storm Lake, with burial in the Odebolt Cemetery. The Rev. Daniel Lynch officiated.

Mr. Swink died suddenly June 24,1982, at Alta.

Mr. Swink was born on Dec. 28, 1899, to Peter and Laura Swink at Perryville, Mo. He was one of 12 children. At about 18 years of age, he came to Iowa to work on a farm in the Odebolt-Arthur area. He was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic faith.

He worked for Valentine and Anna Lunkenheimer where he met and married their daughter Margaret on April 3, 1923, at Sioux City. To this union were born three sons and one daughter.

In 1933, he and his family moved to Storm Lake where he did custom farming and in 1934, he started working at Kingans. He worked there for 29 years at which time he retired. In 1967 his wife died. In 1968, he married Anna Reinboldt of McHenry, 111., where he lived until 1975 when Anna died.

He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and a life member of Local 191 Local Meat Cutters Union. He came back to Iowa and moved to rural Alta and later to an apartment in Alta where he was residing at the time of his death.

Survivors include three sons and their wives, Raphael and wife Juanita of Redondo Beach, Calif; Robert and wife Donna of Hacienda Heights, Calif., Patrick and wife Arlene of Storm Lake; one daughter, Virginia, and husband Don Curry of Huston, Texas; 13 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren, three sisters, Celia Brewer of Perryville, Mo.; Beatrice Hut chins of Warrenton, Mo., and Opal Burrows of St. Louis, Mo., one brother, Miles of St. Louis, Mo.