Word was received here Saturday of the death of Mrs. C. G. Fink of Elsmere, Nebraska, a former Blair girl, at the Methodist hospital in Omaha of cerebral thrombosis. The body was brought here Saturday evening and the funeral held at the Methodist church at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon, Rev. Grant Shick, her former pastor officiating, assisted by Rev. J. A. Johnson. Cora Pearl Folsom was born at Plainview, Nebraska November 8, 1879. She came with her parents to Blair in 1904 and lived here until the time of her marriage to Chester G. Fink August 1, 1906. Since that time she resided with her husband on a homestead near Elsmere, Nebraska. Mrs. Fink united with the Methodist church at Plainview in childhood and transferred her membership to the Blair Methodist church where it remained till the time of her death. She was active in the work of the church when in Blair, singing in the choir and working in the Sunday School and Epworth League. She was also active in church work in the community in which they resided on the homestead, organizing a Sunday School and being president of the W.C.T.U. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Fink, all of whom with their father survive her. They are Arnold Folsom, aged 14 years; Howard Ernest, aged 12 years; Dorothea Hope, aged 9 years; Chester Eugene, aged 3 years; Melvin Arthur, aged 16 months; Archie LeRoy, aged 17 days. Besides her immediate family, Mrs. Fink leaves to mourn her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Folsom of Alva, Okla., two brothers, Archie and Carroll and one sister, Mrs. Max Maxon of Stillwater, Okla. The sympathy of their many friends in Blair goes out to the family in the time of their bereavement.

#2-27 July, 1922 - The Enterprise - Cora Pearl Fink

Cora Pearl Folsom was born in Plainview, Nebraska Nov. 8, 1879. She with her parents came to Blair in 1904, and on August 1, 1906 she was married to Mr. Chester Fink, then a resident of Blair.

After the marriage they moved onto a ranch near Elsmere, Nebraska where they were living at the time of her death which occurred July 22, 1922 in the Methodist Episcopal hospital in Omaha.

Mrs. Fink was a member of the Methodist church of her town where she took a deep interest in all of its activities.

To Mr. and Mrs. Fink six children were born: Arnold, aged 14 years; Howard Ernest, 12; Dorothy Hope, 9; Chester Eugene, 3; Melvin Arthur, 16 months and Archie Leroy, aged 17 days.

The funeral services were held in the Methodist church at Blair on Monday afternoon, and interment made in the Blair cemetery.

Besides her husband and family, she leaves to mourn her her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Folsom of Alva, Oklahoma and two brothers, Archie and Carroll and one sister, Mrs. Max Maxon of Stillwater, Oklahoma.

#3- 27 July, 1922 - The Tribune - Cora Pearl (Folsom) Fink

MRS. CHESTER FINK BURIED HERE MONDAY

Mrs. Chester Fink, nee Cora Pearl Folsom, died at the Methodist hospital in Omaha Saturday, July 22, of cerebral thrombosis, aged 42 years.

Cora Pearl Folsom was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Folsom, former residents of Blair, and was born at Plainview, Nebr. in 1880. During her early life in Blair she was closely identified with the work of the Methodist church, not content with simply being a member, but was an active worker in the Epworth League, a teacher in the Sunday school and a member of the choir.

On August 11, 1906 she was united in marriage to Chester G. Fink, a young businessman of Blair, the words which made her a bride and wife being spoken by the Rev. John Grant Shick, then pastor of the local church. In 1907 she and her husband moved to Elsmere, Cherry county, where she helped to establish a new home enduring the hardships incident to the settling up of a new community. She is spoken of as a remarkable woman, being possessed of much executive ability and force of character and who met any and all circumstances with a smile. Soon after going west she felt the need of a religious organization in that sparsely settled community, and single handed she organized a Sunday school which has grown with passing years until at present it is in a flourishing condition, a substantial monument to her memory.

Six children were born to her, five boys and a girl: Arnold Folsom, the eldest being 14 years old; Harold Ernest, 12; Dorothy Hope, 9; Chester Eugene, 3; Melvin Arthur, 16 months and Archie Leroy, 17 days at the time of his mother’s death, all living, and together with the parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Folsom of Alvo, Oklahoma, several brothers and sisters mourn their irreparable loss.

The body was brought from Omaha to Blair Sunday and on Monday afternoon a little group of friends who had known and loved her as a child and young lady gathered at the church to pay final tribute to one whom they highly regarded. There were choice and beautiful flowers, mute testimonies of the esteem in which she was held. Rev. John Grant Shick, who is now district superintendent of the Columbus district and located at Grand Island responded to the summons to come and deliver the sermon. He was assisted by the Rev. J. A. Johnson, local pastor. Rev. Shick spoke from the text “And They Went and Told Jesus”. He spoke feelingly of the beautiful life she had lived and which as a legacy will be prized by her children as they grown older. Words of comfort to the family were found in his address and further comfort may be found by “telling Jesus”.

A quartet of friends and former associates, consisting of the Messrs. C. R. Mead, Asa Dixon, Jr., Mrs. Annie C. Martin and Miss Ethel Mead sang a couple of selections and Miss Mead sang a sacred solo. The pallbearers were the Messrs. John McCracken, C. R. Mead, Asa Dixon, Jr., Peter M. Tyson, James E. Maher and Prentiss Smith; she was tenderly borne to her last resting place at the summit of the cemetery hill near the scenes of her happy childhood where friends may visit the spot and strew flowers on the mound that hides all that is mortal of this lovely woman, but the real wife, mother and daughter has gone to meet her reward, to “dwell in a house that made with hands, eternal in the heavens”.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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