Flink, Harold T. 1917-2005

FLINK, ANDERSON, NORBERG

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 7/20/2014 at 12:40:28

Hawarden Independent Ireton Examiner January 13, 2005

Harold T. Flink, 87,of Hawarden died Friday, Jan. 7, 2005 at the Hillcrest Health Care Center in Hawarden. Funeral Service was Jan. 10 at the Big Springs Baptist Church, rural Alcester, with the Rev. Daryl Runion officiating. Burial followed in the Big Springs Baptist Cemetery. Porter Funeral Home in Hawarden was in charge of arrangements.

Harold T. Flink was born Oct. 7,1917 on the Flink Farm near Alcester, the son of Theodore and Phemie (Anderson) Flink He attended the Ring School until the loss of his family, Grandpa Anderson and two weeks later his parents within five hours of each other in 1930. His father asked a longtime friend (Oscar Norberg) to take Harold into his home. He graduated from the Hawarden High School in 1936 and for a few years worked as a farm hand. June 30, 1940 he married his life long friend, Katherine Norberg at the bride's family home near Hawarden. They spent a little time in California until returning to the Flink farm in 1942. Due to poor crops and a family, they went back to California in 1956. Harold worked and retired from Southern California Edison Company in the shipping and receiving. He retired in 1982 and spent the following summers taking care of buildings on the farm and helping his mother-in-law. Since 1993 the couple have spent most of their time in Hawarden.

Harold attended the Grace First Presbyterian Church in Long Beach, Calif and had attended the Big Springs Baptist Church near Alcester and the Associated Church in Hawarden.

Survivors include his wife, Katherine; four daughters, Marty Tripp of Lakewood, Calif., Mary Goubeaux of Phoenix, Ariz., Ruth DeSilva of Long Beach, California and Karen Flink of Redondo Beach, Calif; a brother-in-law, Carl "Topper" Norberg of Highlands Ranch, Colo.; four grandsons, four granddaughters; a great-grandson and a great-granddaughter.