Frederieka Zink

'Freddie' September 28, 1936 - March 2, 2016 I entered this world via San Jose, California into the loving arms of Henderena Sophia (Myers) and Frederick Leslie Kulper. My 2-year-old brother, Louis William Myers Kulper, was waiting at home. Seven years later our mother died. Then, when I was 8, Lou and I learned independence at boarding school. Polio became a part of my life when I was 13 years old. Thank goodness for an iron lung and wheelchairs. While attending San Jose State University, I lived with an LDS family who introduced me to the Gospel which became a sustaining truth in my life. Following graduate school at Stanford University in 1960, I worked for 17 years as a speech pathologist with the San Diego Speech and Hearing Center. I married Monte Wendell Zink in 1961. We adopted our newborn son, Wendell Frederick, in 1968. After our move to Provo in 1984, we joined Friends of the Library, served a full-time member locator mission and I participated on BYU's Institutional Review Board. When Monte died in 2006, the marvelous Edgemont 12th Ward family and Horizon Home Health staff did everything possible enabling me to remain at home. Since 1950, hundreds have helped me live as normal a life as possible from my wheelchair. Now the effects of increasing weakness have taken their toll. I will miss Wendell, his daughter, Gennessee Marie and wife, Holly, but how grand it will be to wrap my arms around my eternal husband for the first time and embrace my parents, brother and his daughter, Judy. A new life awaits. My service is at 1 PM, Saturday March 5, 2016 at Edgemont 12th Ward, on 2950 N and Canyon Rd in Provo, Utah. My body is donated to the University of Utah Medical School with burial in the Provo City Cemetery when they have had enough of me.

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