5/21/2023 0 Comments Wende watzig jim fink![]() By respecting the lives of others and relating to them with honesty, justice, and charity, he hoped to spend eternity with his loving God. He went the extra mile with his patients, and was kind, supportive, gentle, patient, understanding, and a good listener and problem solver. He dedicated time to his patients at any hour. He was genuinely concerned about helping others and improving his community, country, and world. His guiding principle was to love God, and serve God by caring for his fellow man, and he accomplished this with his extraordinary devotion to medicine and his outreach to the poor and less fortunate. He chose a profession that matched his gifts well, and that also allowed him to serve others. He loved trivia, and was known to be like a living encyclopedia. Jim was an avid reader, always seeking, questioning, and learning more, treasuring knowledge and truth. He enjoyed a consistent, healthy lifestyle, and even before it was fashionable, he was preaching and practicing healthy eating and exercise. He was an avid Cubs and Notre Dame Fan, and shared his enthusiasm for sports with his family. Though he worked long hours, he found time to travel with them, or spend simple hours raking leaves, going for walks, riding bikes, or going on hikes. Jim loved spending time with his family, which meant everything to him. He volunteered at the Chapin Street Clinic before eventually becoming its medical director, and he continued to volunteer there even after his retirement. Joseph's Hospital respiratory care service and as director of the St. He also served as medical director for the St. He was keenly interested in his patients as real people. exercising alongside his cardiopulmonary rehabilitation patients getting to know each on a personal level and tailoring their medical care to enhance their health and overall quality of life. For years he could be found before 6:00 a.m. In the early 1970s, he was the founding medical director of the area's first cardiopulmonary rehabilitation center, affiliated with St. Jim began his medical practice at the South Bend Clinic, and after several years, left to open a private practice in internal medicine, focusing on heart and lung disease. In 1970, he moved his growing family to South Bend, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. He served in the Public Health Service for several years, working as a physician on Native American Indian reservations in Arizona, before completing his residency in Internal Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. He obtained his medical degree from Loyola University (Chicago), where he graduated first in his class in 1964. On Augin Gary, IN he married Margie (Klimaitis) Fink. The next year he enrolled at the University of Notre Dame to fulfill his premedical requirements. "Margie" (Klimaitis), and made the decision to pursue a career in medicine. ![]() While working in Gary, he had two revelations that were turning points in his life: he met his future wife, Marjorie F. ![]() After deciding to leave the seminary, he worked as executive secretary of the Catholic Youth Organization in Gary. He then attended Catholic University in Washington, D.C., where he received a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy. Jim entered the seminary and attended Our Lady of the Lake Seminary in Wawasee, where he graduated as valedictorian in 1956. James was born on Septemin Huntington, IN to the late Helen (Hartman) and Francis Fink, who was editor of the Our Sunday Visitor Catholic newspaper where Jim worked during part of his young adulthood. He will be profoundly missed and never forgotten. His intelligence and care for others was evident in everything he did, and served as an example to all those whose lives he touched. He was devoted to his family, and a physician dedicated to healing the ill, defending the less fortunate, and bettering his community. Wednesday, Octoin his home after a valiant six-year battle with multiple myeloma. Fink, age 73, of South Bend passed away at 3:45 a.m. wishes to express their deepest gratitude and admiration for the life of their beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother. La Casa de Amistad Youth and Community Center. ![]()
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