Brink, Evelyn Mrs. Sam 1922-2010

BRINK, TEGROTENHUIS, MENNING

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 11/14/2010 at 19:59:14

Evelyn Brink
February 17, 1922 - October 24, 2010
Mrs. Evelyn Brink, age 88, of Hospers, passed away on Sunday, October 24, 2010, at the Sanford Sheldon Senior Care in Sheldon.

There will be a funeral service on Wednesday, October 27, at 10:00am, at the First Reformed Church in Hospers. The Rev. Milton Sikkema will officiate. Interment will follow at the Hospers Cemetery. Visitation will be after 4:00pm on Tuesday, with the family present from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, at the Oolman Funeral Home in Hospers.

Evelyn was born on February 17, 1922, in rural Hospers, the daughter of Simone and Dena (Te Grotenhuis) Menning. She was raised on a farm near Newkirk and attended public school there. She had eight brothers and sisters.

On April 1, 1941, she married Sam Brink in Newkirk. They lived on a farm east of Hospers, until he entered the United States Armed Forces in 1942. She wrote him almost every day during the 37 months he served; he was the love of her life.

In 1958, Mr. and Mrs. Brink moved into Hospers, where they owned and operated the Hospers Dry Cleaners and the Kountry Kitchen café. She continued to work in the restaurant business for many years. Later they moved to Sheldon, where they eventually became residents of the Oak Park Care Center (now Sanford Sheldon Senior Care) in 2003. Sam passed away on August 18, 2003, in Sheldon, after 62 years of marriage.

Evelyn was a member of the First Reformed Church, where she taught Sunday school classes and sang in the choir for many years. She enjoyed music and often played the piano, with family and friends gathered around. She especially enjoyed holidays, particularly Christmas, when she would open her home to everyone. No one ever left her house hungry. She loved spending time with her family and was proud of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Those remaining to cherish her memory are her son and his wife, Jerry and Mary Brink, of Princeton; her daughter, Julie Brink, of Sheldon; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, Eric Goslinga, and his wife, Kathlene, of Marshalltown; Gina, and her husband, Paul Tiffany, and their children, Nathan, Christina, Josiah, and Grace, of Fergus Falls, Minnesota; Amy, and her husband, Kevin Lamfers, and their sons, Andrew and Noah, of Princeton; and Jerod Brink, and his fiancé, Jessica Youmans, and her daughter, Cheyeanne, of De Witt; two brothers, Marion and Norman Menning; two sisters, Arlene Brown and Eunice Scholten; two brothers-in-law, Carol Brown and Ed Scholten; and two sisters-in-law, Christine, Fannie, Marjorie, and Viola Menning.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Harold and Virgil Menning; two sisters, Ester Boone and Sylvia Hornsby; and two brothers-in-law, Edwin Boone and Dennis Raak.
Source: Oolman Funeral Home obit