Julie (Wingerter) PLATT RINK

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Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/11/2013 at 11:07:36

March 28, 1929 --- April 8, 2013

Julie Wingerter Platt-Rink, 84, of 639 York, passed away at 5:30 a.m. Monday (April 8, 2013) in Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis from a rare blood cancer. Julie was the eldest child born to Odell and Barbara Weed Wingerter of Quincy. She married Bill Platt of Quincy and later married Dick Rink of Clarion, Iowa.

Julie retired from Sunset Home where she worked for many years as the receptionist and in the post office assisting the residents. She greatly enjoyed reading, especially Quincy history, and working cryptograms and crossword puzzles.

Julie is survived by daughters, Susie (Tod) Hampton of Terre Haute, Ind., and Lori Spilker of Fowler; sons, Joe Platt and Jaime Platt of Quincy and David Platt of Maywood, Mo.; sisters, Lolly Hultz, Carole Walker, Kathy Bowen and Sue Frazier of Quincy, Sharon Moyer of Barry and Judy Greene of Paloma; brothers, Lewis Wingerter and Ronald Wingerter of Quincy and Michael Wingerter of Maywood, Mo.; 18 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and special friends, Don and Diane Rink of Clarion, Iowa. Also surviving are several nieces and nephews. Julie was preceded in death by her parents; daughters, Debbie Bias and Sherry Young; a great-grandchild, Jacob Platt; and a brother, Leroy Wingerter.

SERVICES: Cremation rites have been accorded to Julie.

VISITATION: The family will meet with friends to celebrate Julie's life at a visitation 5-7 p.m. Friday in the Zehender Robinson Stormer Cookson Funeral Home.

MEMORIALS: Memorials can be made to the Quincy Humane Society.

ARRANGEMENTS: Zehender Robinson Stormer Cookson Funeral Home.

Quincy Herald-Whig - Illinois
April 10, 2013