Pink, Helen (Runner) 1921-1996

RUNNER, PINK, WRAY, KROUGH, HAINES, CASE, WANNER, MOFFITT

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 4/19/2006 at 10:41:18

Helen M. Pink

Funeral services for Helen M. Runner Pink, 74, of Clearview Manor in Prairie City, a longtime resident of Jasper County and Newton, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 11, at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home in Newotn.

The Rev. Mike Johnson, pastor of the Kellogg Christian Church, will conduct services.

Burial will be in Newton Memorial Park Cemetery.

Freinds may call at the funeral home after noon Wednesday and visitation with the family will be held from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Pink died of heart failure Saturday evening at the Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines.

Survivors are a brother, Dale Runner of Kellogg; four nieces, Marlene (Mrs. Ted) Krough of Clemons, Marilyn Haines of Grinnell, Violet Cass of North Glen, Colo., and Irene (Mrs. Jerry) Wanner of Columbus, Mont.; and two nephews, Le Roy Moffitt of North Glen, Colo., and John Thomas Runner of Kansas City, Mo.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Elmer, Aug. 9, 1991; a brother, Paul Runner, and a sister, LaVonna Moffitt.

Mrs. Pink was a member of the Sand Hill Grange and president of the residence association at Clearview Manor in Prairie City.

The daughter of John and Stella Wray Runner, she was born Dec. 6, 1921 in rural Marshalltown and was a graduate of Newburg High School.

She was married to Elmer Ralph Pink, Feb. 14, 1954 in Marshalltown.

She resided south of Laurel before moving to the rural Kellogg area in 1937.

She was a homemakre who assisted with the farming. ~ The Newton Daily News, April 9, 1996.