Linda A. Finken 1944 - 1996

FINKEN, OLSON, PIKE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 6/14/2024 at 19:57:03

Sioux City Journal
14 November 1996

Linda A. Finken, 52, of Sioux City died Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1996, at a Sioux City hospital of a sudden illness.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, with the Rev. James Bruch officiating. Entombment will be at Calvary Cemetery in the Mausoleum of Resurrection. Visitation will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Friday at the Birkemier Funeral Home, resuming at 6 p.m., with a 7:30 p.m. parish vigil, at the church.

Mrs. Finken was born Jan. 4, 1944, in Los Angeles, Calif., the daughter of Matty and Gladys (Olson) Pike. She moved to North Sioux City as a child. She attended Sacred Heart Elementary School and graduated from Heelan High School in 1962. She married Ronald Finken on Oct. 21, 1966, in Elk Point, S.D. The couple made their home in Sioux City. She was employed as a cook for Sacred Heart School and later at the Siouxland Easter Seals Alzheimer Association.

Mrs. Finken was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church and the Riverside Cribbage League. She enjoyed fishing.

Survivors include two daughters, Dr. Amy Finken of Elizabethville, Pa., and Christy and her husband Paul Weiss of Omaha, Neb.; one son, Bill of Sioux City; one step-daughter and her husband, Julie and Scott Taylor of Sioux City; one step-son and his wife, Mike and Gail Fitzpatrick of Omaha, Neb.; two sisters and their husbands, Rosemary and Larry Severson of Hoskins, Neb. and Susie and Mike Becker of Alton, Iowa; one brother and his wife, Randy and Dawn Girard of North Sioux City; three grandchildren, Zachary Taylor, Justin and Mikala Fitzpatrick; and her father, Matty Pike of Rockford, Ill.

She was preceded in death by her mother and stepfather, Gladys and Ranal Girard.