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Warren Fink

[April 22, 2010]  LINCOLN -- Warren Monroe Fink, 65, of Lincoln, died Tuesday, April 20, 2010, at 11:15 p.m. at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital.

A memorial Mass will be at 10 a.m. Monday, April 26, at Holy Family Church, with the Rev. Jeff Laible officiating.

Burial will be in Harmony Cemetery, Beason.

Following services, the family will meet with friends and relatives at the Knights of Columbus in Lincoln.

Arrangements are by Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln.

Mr. Fink was a retired agricultural salesman and farmer. He farmed for 17 years on the family-owned Spring Dale Stock Farm and Fink's Durocs.

He was born March 27, 1945, in Lincoln. His parents were Charles E. and Helen Colburn Fink. He married Teri Spiegel on Sept. 11, 1966, in Urbana.

He is survived by his wife, of Lincoln; two daughters, Dawn Fink of Denver, Colo., and Cari (and Jimmy) Smith of Denver, Colo.; three grandchildren, Connor, Collin and Brigid; two brothers, Ronald (and Katy) Fink of Tempe, Ariz., and Norman (and Barb) Fink of Belleville; and a sister-in-law, Carol Schmidt Fink of Lincoln.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Melvin, who died in 1978.

He was a member of Holy Family Church.

Over his lifetime, he was active as president of the Illinois Durocs Association, was secretary-treasurer of the Logan County Producers, served nine years on the Beason Grade School board, served on the Logan County Regional Planning Commission, was 4-H swine superintendent for the Logan County Fair for 20 years, was a purebred Duroc swine breeder, president of DTN club and was a Shriners member.

He graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a degree in agricultural education in 1967.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, Holy Family Church or the donor's choice.

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