April 10, 1941

Father August Zink

Father August Zink was born on November 13, 1862 in St. Nicholas, IN. He made his major ecclesiastical studies at St. Joseph’s College, N.Y., at St. Bonaventure’s Seminary in Allegheny, N.Y., and at St. Charles’ Seminary in Carthagena, OH. He was ordained on July 2, 1893 for the Diocese of Cleveland and served as pastor at Tiffin, Larain, and North Auburn. He came to Kansas in the hope of bettering his health in 1915 and was assigned by Bishop Schwertner to Offerle for two years. His next and last assignment was to Windthorst where he retired on September 30, 1939 due to poor health. The last two years of his life were spent in New Mexico and Colorado and he died at Mt. San Rafael Hospital in Trinidad, Colorado, on April 10, 1941. “He did his work faithfully, albeit toward the close of his active career sickness had slowed him down until the celebration of the Mass became for him a physical test.” (The Advance Register, April 18, 1941)