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Lucy M. Huggler Brink

Birth
Ridgway, Elk County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
23 Jan 2009 (aged 85)
Girard, Erie County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Fairview, Erie County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Age 85, a daughter of the late Albert and Minnie Streich Huggler. She graduated from Ridgway High School in 1941, and later married Logan E. "Spike" Brink on March 28, 1942. She was an Army wife for 25 years, being stationed in Okinawa, Fort Knox, Ky., and Germany before returning to Ridgway in 1963 with her husband, Msgt. Logan Brink, and family. She lived there until 1979 when she and her husband retired to Erie, where she resided until his death in 1986, then moved to Girard where she had resided since. Lucy loved the outdoors. She had a love of music and singing, and a great enthusiasm for her Swiss heritage with music and yodeling.

In addition to her parents and husband she was preceded in death by her son LtCol. (Ret) Thomas L. Brink in 2008. Also preceding her in death were five sisters, Mrs. Ann Van Horn, Mrs. Rose Stager, Mrs. Bertha Horning, Mrs. Margaret Hemke, Mrs. Ida Popiel; and two brothers, Andrew and John Huggler.

She is survived by a daughter, Joyce M. Brink of Girard; and two sons, James A. Brink of Erie and Timothy J. Brink (Tammie) of Fairview; a sister, Mrs. Jeannette Johnson of Ridgway Pa.; a brother Robert "Boots" Huggler of Bel Aire Md.; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews; and her dog, Skoshie.
Age 85, a daughter of the late Albert and Minnie Streich Huggler. She graduated from Ridgway High School in 1941, and later married Logan E. "Spike" Brink on March 28, 1942. She was an Army wife for 25 years, being stationed in Okinawa, Fort Knox, Ky., and Germany before returning to Ridgway in 1963 with her husband, Msgt. Logan Brink, and family. She lived there until 1979 when she and her husband retired to Erie, where she resided until his death in 1986, then moved to Girard where she had resided since. Lucy loved the outdoors. She had a love of music and singing, and a great enthusiasm for her Swiss heritage with music and yodeling.

In addition to her parents and husband she was preceded in death by her son LtCol. (Ret) Thomas L. Brink in 2008. Also preceding her in death were five sisters, Mrs. Ann Van Horn, Mrs. Rose Stager, Mrs. Bertha Horning, Mrs. Margaret Hemke, Mrs. Ida Popiel; and two brothers, Andrew and John Huggler.

She is survived by a daughter, Joyce M. Brink of Girard; and two sons, James A. Brink of Erie and Timothy J. Brink (Tammie) of Fairview; a sister, Mrs. Jeannette Johnson of Ridgway Pa.; a brother Robert "Boots" Huggler of Bel Aire Md.; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews; and her dog, Skoshie.


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