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- Hattie Fink, civic worker, dies at 80
Mrs. Hattie Jane Fink of Redding, widow of Walter H. Fink, Former publisher of the Redding Searchlight, died in a Redding hospital yesterday after a long illness. She was 80.
Mrs. Fink was active in civic affairs, and was chairman of the Shasta county probation committee from 1923 to 1956.
She was one of the organizers of the Redding Parent-Teacher association and of the Redding Coordinating council, and was president of both organizations.
She was a past matron of the Redding chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star , and a member of the White Shrine.
She was born March 8, 1878 in Ontario, Canada, and came to Redding with her husband Walter, in 1915 from Denver. Fink died in 1949.
She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Annajane Joseph of Olinda; a sister, Mrs. Fred H. Potter of Lansing, Mich.; five grandchildren, Glenn Joseph, Ara Dell Joseph, Mary Ellen Joseph and Mrs. Bettyann Ramirez, all of Olinda, and Walter Joseph of Summit City; and one great-grandchild,
Services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at McDonald’s chapel. Richard Sunderland will officiate, and interment will be in Lawncrest Memorial park.
The family has asked that memorial contributions be sent to the Shasta county probation department for use at the county juvenile hall.
Record Searchlight, Redding, California. Monday, 1 September 1958, page 1.
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