Elinor Jean (Monroe) Brink, 97, went home to be with the Lord, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025.
She was surrounded by family at Watson Fields Care Facility in Dover, New Hampshire.
She was born in Bovina Sept. 22, 1927, and was the daughter of Henry and Ruth Monroe. She graduated from Delhi Academy as valedictorian of her class and obtained a degree in home economics from Cornell University in 1950.
On July 1, 1950, she married Horace I (Bud) Brink and moved to Colesville, New Jersey, where she lived until 2001, being an active member of the Colesville United Methodist Church.
During that time, she did substitute teaching and was the home economics teacher at Frankford School in Branchville, New Jersey for many years. Her later years in New Jersey were spent as director of the Sussex Nutrition Site.
She later moved to Arcadia, Florida and cared for her husband who had Parkinson’s Disease until his passing in 2004. She moved back to Delhi and then to Lee, New Hampshire and was cared for by her son and daughter-in-law, Thomas and Nancy Brink, before moving into care facilities in 2023. Her loves in life were her family, singing in the choir, serving others and traveling with her husband in their later years.
Surviving are two sons and two daughters-in-law, Richard and Linda Brink of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Thomas and Nancy Brink of Lee, New Hampshire, six grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. She also has a sister, Francis Burns of Stamford and a brother and sister-in-law, Lauren and Lois Monroe of Bovina.
She was predeceased by her husband, Horace Brink in 2004 and a sister, Isabelle Deter in 2018.
A Celebration of Life will be held in Bovina Center Aug. 9, 2025, with a burial at Clove Cemetery in Wantage, New Jersey at a later time.
