Pink, Earle Lanar – 1891-1955

BEALS, GRIBBEN, PINK

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:40

Colfax Rites Today For E. L. Pink, 63, Who Died Monday
Funeral services were today in Colfax for Earl Lanar Pink, 63, Jasper county farmer and lifetime resident who died Monday.
Services were conducted by Rev. W. L. Hawn, of the Colfax Methodist church. Burial was in Union Chapel cemetery in Ira.
Pallbearers were John Turnis, Lloyd Maggard, James Leonard, Sr., Charles Battle, Joe Pratt, and Harry O’Brien.
In charge of flowers were Mrs. John Turnis, Mrs. Robert Scott, Mrs. Lucille Loar, and Mrs. Hale Nickell.
Mr. Pink is survived by his wife, Nell; a mother, Mrs. Emma Pink of Newton; a son, Elmer of Colfax; two sisters, Mrs. Grace Gribben of Newton and Mrs. Cecile Beals of Colfax.
The Boyd-Nickell funeral home of Baxter was in charge of arrangements.
Source: Newton (IA) Daily News; Thursday, May 12, 1955, page 1

Earle Pink, son of Peter and Emma Pink, was born on the Pink homestead, just north of his present home, on August 13, 1891, and passed away at his home May 9, 1955, due to a heart attack.
Mr. Pink lived all of his life in and near Colfax, and with the exception of a very few years, lived on his present farm. In 1913 he was united in marriage to Nellie Beals. To this union one son, Elmer Pink, of Colfax, Ia., was born.
Earl was a member of the Sand Hill Grange for forty-eight years, and has always been active in Farm Bureau work. He started with the Farm Program in the early thirties and became chairman of the Triple A Office in Newton, where he served for six years. Earl found it necessary to retire from the Triple A Office two years ago, due to ill health.
Early Monday, May 9, 1955, Earl planned to go to the home of a neighbor, and as he got into his car his life was taken by a heart attack. He will be greatly missed in the community as he had a host of friends, among both young and old.
He attended the Sand Hill church and was active in the Goddard Sunday School. He leaves to mourn his passing, his wife and his son Elmer and daughter-in-law, Helen, two sisters, Mrs. Grace Gribben of Newton, and Cecil Beals of Colfax. Also his mother, Mrs. Emma Pink of Newton with whom he had spent Mother’s Day. There are several nieces and nephews, other relatives and friends.
A fine tribute was paid to Earl by a friend who said “in all my dealings with people, and I have had many, there was never one more sincere and truthful than Earle”.
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2:00 in the Methodist Church in Colfax with Rev. W. L. Hawn, pastor of the church officiating.
Burial was in the Union Chapel Cemetery at Ira.
Source: The Colfax (IA) Tribune; Thursday, May 19, 1955, page 9