DR. ROLAND FINK Obituary: Terrebonne Parish, La. Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Source: Houma Courier, Houma, Terrebonne Parish, La. 15 Aug 2005 ================================================== ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ================================================== NOTES: 1. The date preceding the obituary is the date of posting on the WWW, not the date of death. ============================= August 12. 2005 3:53PM Dr. Roland Fink [Photo] Dr. Roland Fink, 87, died Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, at Lafayette General Hospital. Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Quirk and Son Funeral Home in Eunice, with the Revs. Carolyn Volentine and Frank Davis officiating. Entombment will be in St. Paul Mausoleum. In honor of Dr. Fink's Jewish faith, a Kidish Prayer Service will be held by the family and assisted by Rabbi Dr. Z. Aviner at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the mausoleum. He is survived by two daughters, Cynthia Fink Ardoin and husband, Dr. Van Ardoin, of Houma, and Dr. Rhonda Moser of Eunice; five grandchildren, Van Michael Ardoin II, Marc Roland Ardoin and wife, Sara, Rebecca Erin Moser, Sarah Moser Fruge' and husband, Michael, and Michal Ethan Moser; a special companion, Ruth Ellen Duplechin; his special nephew, Herbert Fink Jr.; and his cousin, Herbert "Cuz" Fink. He was preceded in death by his parents, Max and Julia Jacobs Fink; his wife, Ruby Ruth Brady Fink; four brothers, Herbert Fink Sr., Paul Fink, George Fink and Maxwell Fink; and two sisters, Gertrude Fink and Helen Fink Cohn. He graduated from Ouachita High School in 1934 and attended Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe and Louisiana State University before completing his education at Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tenn., in 1940. Dr. Fink practiced optometry in Baton Rouge and Lake Charles before serving in the U.S. Army Medical Corp in World War II. After the war, he joined his wife in the practice of optometry in Eunice and Ville Platte and practiced 60 years before finally retiring. He served on the Louisiana State Board of Optometry Examiners from 1949-54. He was involved in numerous business ventures over the years. He was a pioneer in broadcasting in southwest Louisiana and was one of the original owners and directors of KLFY Channel 10 in Lafayette, of KEUN radio station in Eunice and of KVPI radio station in Ville Platte. He was serving as president and chairman of the board of KVPI at the time of his death. He was a master member of Harmony Lodge No. 410 in Eunice. He was a devoted outdoorsman who learned to hunt and fish with his older brothers on the bayous and in the woods around his native Monroe. Over the years, he hunted and fished throughout the continental United States, Alaska and Central America. He knew his way around every good fishing hole in Toledo Bend, Lake Chicot and the Atchafalaya Basin. He was a founding member of Davis Island Hunting Club on the Mississippi River and was active on the island through his final season. He hunted and fished on Davis Island for nearly 40 years and was glad he had the chance to share his love of the outdoors with his grandchildren. He also was still catching bass in his secret spot near Eunice just a few days before his final illness. Quirk and Son Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.