WINTERINK, Victoria E. (nee Pearson) 1916-2003

WINTERINK, PEARSON, SUNDBERG

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/4/2009 at 11:10:28

Victoria Winterink, 87, a resident of 2175 Vista Lane, Charles City, died Tuesday, December 2, 2003, at the Floyd County Memorial Hospital in Charles City.

Funeral services for Victoria Winterink will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday at Trinity United Methodist Church, Charles City. Rev. Paul Wilcox, pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Charles City.

Friends may call at the Hauser Funeral Home in Charles City from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and for one hour prior to the service at church.

Victoria E. Pearson Winterink was born April 9, 1916, in Madrid, Iowa, the daughter of Victor and Ellen (Sundberg) Pearson. Victoria graduated from Madrid High School in 1934 and later graduated from Iowa State University in 1938. She worked in St. Paul, Minn. at the University Hospital for her internship and from there became the first dietician at the Cedar Valley Hospital in Charles City.

Victoria was united in marriage to Russell C. Winterink on November 9, 1941, in her parents home in Madrid. The couple farmed east of Charles City. Victoria was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church and the East Saint Charles Women's Group, and was very active in support of Charles City High School Athletics. She was an excellent cook and loved to garden, but time spent with her family was always most important.

Victoria is survived and lovingly remembered by her son Bob Winterink and his wife Naomi of Charles City; her grandchildren, Roby Winterink and his wife Tara, Michael Winterink and his wife Carla, Shelly Dockendorf and her husband Brodie, and Kimberly Kellogg and her husband Doug, all of Charles City; two step-grandchildren Penny Holt and Troy Holt; eleven great-grandchildren; a sister Eloise Pearson of Madrid, and a sister-in-law Francis Pearson of Story City; and two nephews, Victor Pearson and his wife Diane of Lincoln, Nebraska, and Vern Pearson and his wife Jeanie of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Victoria was preceded in death by her husband Russell, her parents, one sister Elizabeth Pearson, one brother Eldon Pearson, and one grandson Jody Winterink.