OBITUARY: Berdene Henriette Fink Lockwood, c1910-2004, Mitchell Co., Iowa
 
[Adapted from: Mitchell County-Press-News online - Posted 2/25/04 ] 
 



                            Berdene Lockwood
                            
Private family services will be held in New York City, at a later date
and inurnment will be at the Orchard Cemetery for Berdene Henriette
Lockwood of Osage. She died Saturday, Feb. 14, 2004 at the Good Samaritan
Center in St. Ansgar.

Berdene was born in Grundy Center, Iowa, the daughter of Charles A.
and Frances (Lhamon) Fink. She attended country schools in the area and
in Devonia and graduated from Orchard High School. Berdene attended Iowa
State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, majoring in elementary music
education.

In 1932 she married Marvin Claire Lockwood of New Haven in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. Berdene made Osage her home from 1945 until 1959 and was a
member of the First Congregational Church. She moved to New York City
to live with her daughter's family and was employed as a receptionist
at the Japan Trade Center and radio station WNEW, and was a saleswoman
at Martin's Department Store. Since 1981, after her retirement she
returned to live in Osage. Her interests included the theater and ballet,
fashion and collecting Wedgwood and Lalique.

Berdene was preceded in death by her parents and four brothers Milo,
Elwyn, Dale and Edwin Fink.

Her survivors include a daughter Diane Olsen of Brooklyn, New York,
two grandchildren Laura Olsen of Norwalk, Connecticut, and Christopher
Olsen of Manhattan, New York, and two beloved nieces Phyllis Coyle of
Downers Grove, Illinois, and Connie Mauser of Port Aransas, Texas.

Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage, was in charge of arrangements.



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