Fink

On October 13, 2005, THERESA G. "Tessie" FINK (nee Rolfes), beloved wife of William G. Fink, devoted mother of Kathleen F. Jordan, Patricia F. Gronckireichert-Meninger and her husband David, loving grandmother of Scott and Curtis Jordan and his wife Kelly, caring great-grandmother of Emily, Gabrielle and Molly Jordan, dear sister of Marie Rolfes, Cecilia Allen, Bernadette Eckhart, Joseph Rolfes and the late Ida Andrews, Veronica Ryan, Frances, Martin and...

Bernard Herbert Fink, the gregarious and colorful owner of Fink's Discount Liquors and "Unofficial Mayor of Mount Washington," died Saturday of a stroke at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 76 and lived in the Meadowood section of Baltimore County. A man of medium build, his black-framed glasses usually were pushed to the top of his tousled gray hair. His crinkly smile and jocular banter were as characteristic as his bottle-jammed Falls Road liquor store. Known as Bernie to customers, he had been dispensing spirits and cheer for 30 years from a white clapboard turn-of-the-century store near Falls Road and Lake Avenue in North Baltimore.

Brian M. Fink, a self-employed handyman and Pigtown resident, was found dead Nov. 10 near the Maryland Transit Administration's light rail line in Bolton Hill. He was 28. Mr. Fink's body was found on the MTA's right of way between the Mount Royal and North Avenue stations. According to an MTA spokeswoman yesterday, his death remains under investigation by city and MTA police. Mr. Fink, who was born in Baltimore and raised in Pigtown, attended city public schools. Known as a "go-to-your-home" auto mechanic, Mr. Fink also worked as a self-employed home restoration and maintenance specialist in Baltimore.

Kathryn H. Fink, a homemaker who enjoyed crocheting afghans and crosses, died of heart failure Friday at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. She was 88. Born Kathryn Hellen in Baltimore, and raised on Broadway in East Baltimore, she was a 1932 graduate of Eastern High School, which was then on East North Avenue. She was married that year to Charles H. Fink who was a streetcar motorman and Baltimore Transit Co. supervisor. Mr. Fink died in 1982. Mrs. Fink, who had lived in Northeast Baltimore, was an accomplished needleworker who liked crocheting afghans and crosses used for infant baptisms at Fallston United Methodist Church.

Helen D. Fink, who with her husband operated Fink's drug and variety stores in Middle River and Baltimore, died of kidney failure Sunday at a nursing home in Harrisonburg, Va. The former Parkville resident was 86. Helen D. Fosler was born in Baltimore and raised on Milton Avenue. She was a graduate of a business course at St. Katharine of Siena Roman Catholic Church in East Baltimore. She was a clerical worker before her 1936 marriage to Frank T. "Doc" Fink, a pharmacist. In addition to the Middle River drug and variety store, the couple later owned the Blackstone Pharmacy at 33rd and St. Paul streets, and Paul's Pharmacy in Parkville.

Daniel M. Fink, a semiretired box company executive and a founder of the Liberty Jewish Center, died Wednesday of respiratory failure at Sinai Hospital. The Pikesville resident was 82. Mr. Fink was born in Baltimore and raised in the city's Park Circle neighborhood, where his father owned and operated a general store. After graduating from City College in 1944, he enlisted in the Army and was sent to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he studied engineering. He later served with the adjutant general's staff until being discharged at the end of the war. He enrolled at the University of Maryland in 1947, and because he had so many credits in civil engineering, he earned his bachelor's degree in 1949.

Piper & Marbury announced yesterday that its New York office will triple in size beginning Monday, when the firm of Varet & Fink P.C. joins Maryland's largest law firm.The addition of the 26 Varet & Fink attorneys comes on the heels of Piper & Marbury's March expansion of its Washington office, in which it absorbed 22 lawyers constituting the capital region practice of Pettit & Martin."This is the product of a deliberate process that led us to the conclusion that we needed to develop certain practices and offices outside our Baltimore base," said Frank B. Burch Jr., Piper & Marbury's chairman.

James R. "Jim" Fink, who piloted a durable B-17 named Wee Willie across the skies of Germany during World War II, died Friday of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Copper Ridge in Sykesville. He was 79. "He had two passions in his life: his family and aviation," said a daughter, Frances Finnegan of Timonium. Mr. Fink flew 35 bombing missions over Germany as an Army Air Forces lieutenant with the 322nd Squadron of the 91st Bombardment Group based in Bassingbourn, England. Those missions included historic raids over Schweinfurt's defense plants and Remagen, the heavily defended bridge that finally fell in 1945.

When Jeff Fink walked away from the Francis Scott Key football team last year, no one was more surprised than Coach Mike Coons.Fink had made a lasting impression on Coons as a ninth-grader when he made a pact with teammate Bobby Selby to raise his level of play to new heights."