Pink, Emma (Witmer) 1870-1965

PINK, WITMER, GRIBBEN, FULLERTON, KANDIG

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 5/10/2005 at 21:36:36

Newton (IA) Daily News January 13, 1965
Emma Pink, 94, Dies At Colfax; Services Friday

Pink, Emma (Witmer)

Mrs. Peter R. (Emma W.) Pink, 94, of 314 S. Second Ave. W., a lifelong resident of Jasper County, died Tuesday afternoon at the Gardner Custodial Home in Colfax.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Johnson Chapel.

The Rev Raymond Barnett, minister of the First Christian Church, will conduct the services. Burial will be in Sugar Grove Cemetery.

Mrs. Pink will lie in state at the Johnson Chapel after 6 p.m. today.

Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Harvey (Grace) Gribben of Newton; four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; three great-great grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Crystall Fullerton of Sedro Woolley, Wash.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, a son, a daughter, three sisters and two brothers.

Mrs. Pink was a member of the First Christian Church, a 50-year member of the Sand Hill Grange and a member of the Sunshine Club.

The daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Kandig Witmer, she was born April 22, 1870 at Greencastle, Iowa.

Educated in Jasper County schools, she was married to Peter R. Pink March 5, 1890 at Greencastle.

Mrs. Pink resided on the same farmstead in Jasper County all of her life except for the past 10 years when she made her home with her daughter.

Originally submitted on Sun Apr 14 11:34:00 2002