KLINK, Leonard ca1916-2001

KLINK

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/18/2011 at 11:12:33

LEONARD KLINK

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MARBLE ROCK, IOWA - Leonard Klink, 84, of 1450 290th St., Marble Rock, died Saturday (June 16, 2001) at the 9th Street Chautauqua Guest Home in Charles City.

His funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at United Methodist Church, Rockford. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Rockford.

Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at Reid's Funeral Chapel, Marble Rock, and one hour before service time Tuesday at the church.

Reid's Funeral Chapel, (641) 397-2689.

[Globe Gazette, June 17, 2001 -- ncigs.org]

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LEONARD KLINK

MARBLE ROCK - Funeral services for Leonard Klink, 84, of 1450 290th Street, Marble Rock, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 19, 2001, at the United Methodist Church in Rockford. Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery, in Rockford.

Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Reid's Funeral Chapel in Marble Rock and will continue Tuesday at the church one hour before services.

Leonard Klink was born southwest of Rockford, Scott Township, the youngest of 13 children of Paul and Anna (Quakk) Klink, and died Saturday, June 16, 2001, at the Ninth Street Chautauqua Guest Home in Charles City. As a young boy , the family moved to live in the Janesville area for several years where he received part of his schooling and later returning to Rockford area where he finished his schooling and started farming as a young man.

He was united in marriage to Mildred Inman on July 13, 1946, at the Rockford United Methodist Church. They farmed east of Rockford later moving to their present farm west of Marble Rock. He retired from farming in 1990. Leonard was a life long member of the United Methodist Church in Rockford. His interests included collecting toy tractors, reading and keeping up on what was new in farming and agriculture, watching Westerns on television, and spending time with his grandchildren and great grandchildren. One of his greatest joys was his Alaskan Husky named Rocket.

He will be sadly missed by his two sons, David, of Rockford and Alvin and his wife, Susan, of Marble Rock; five grandchildren, Michael (Vivian) Klink, Shelly Klink, Rhonda (Jeremy) Stephens, Leroy Klink, Edna May Klink; and two great-grandchildren, Jeremy Paul Stephens and Jeffrey Donavon Stephens; one sister, Nellie Stephens, of Oregon; many nieces, nephews, and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Mildred (1985), parents, six brothers, Paul, John, Jake, Corney, Crenny, Joseph, the twins, Marinus and Marina, three sisters, Jenny and Helen, Mina, and a daughter-in-law, Nancy Hillman Klink.

Those planning an expression of sympathy may direct memorials to the Leonard Klink Memorial Fund in care of the family.

Reid's Funeral Chapel, (641) 823-4457.

[Globe Gazette, June 18, 2001 -- ncigs.org]