Reinking, Shirley 1908-2004

REINKING, ASHLEY, DRAKE

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 4/25/2009 at 17:30:14

PIERSON, Iowa -- Shirley Reinking, 95, of Pierson died Sunday, Oct. 3, 2004, at Kingsley Nursing and Rehab Center in Kingsley, Iowa.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Salem Lutheran Church in rural Correctionville, Iowa, with A.I.M. Bert Burwell officiating. Burial will be in Kingsley Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. today, with the family present 5 to 7 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Rohde-Earnest Funeral Home in Kingsley.

Shirley was born Oct. 15, 1908, in rural Anthon, Iowa, the daughter of Bert and Austa (Drake) Ashley. She grew up in the Anthon area and graduated from Anthon High School. She attended Morningside College in Sioux City.

She taught in a rural school before marrying Emmert Reinking on Feb. 26, 1937, at Salem Lutheran Church. They made their home in the rural Pierson area, where they lived until 1971, at which time they moved into Pierson. Emmert died Oct. 22, 1986. After his passing, she continued to live in Pierson. In 1988, she entered Kingsley Nursing and Rehab Center.

She was a member of Salem Lutheran Church and the Vintage Vines Chapter of the Red Hat Society.

Survivors include a daughter and her husband, Deanna and Millard Collins of Lanark Village, Fla.; two sons and their wives, Louis and Norma Reinking and Charles and Diane Reinking, all of Kingsley; 10 grandchildren, Mike Kelly and his wife, Victoria, Rodney Kelly, Scott Reinking and his wife, Mary, Teresa Reinking and her husband, Jeff Hilzinger, Jeff Reinking and his wife, Molly, Kevin Reinking and his wife, Susan, Kim Juelfs and her husband, Jay, Jill Bobolz and her husband, Kyle, Gene Collins and Rick Collins and his wife, Marcie; several great-grandchildren; and a brother, Frank Ashley of Lawton, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Emmert; two sisters, Doris and Maxine; and a brother, Eldon.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal--part of the Darrell E. Obituary Collection