Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Kenneth Lawrence MINK
Sun, The (Baltimore, MD) - Wednesday, July 12, 1995
Deceased Name: Kenneth L. Mink
Rug specialist Kenneth L. Mink, a specialist in Oriental rugs who had been associated with department stores in Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia, died Saturday of cancer at his home near Earleville in Cecil County. He was 75.
Mr. Mink, who also had homes in Newtown Square, Pa., and Clearwater Beach, Fla., retired in 1985 as the owner of Oriental rug businesses in Woodward & Lothrop and John Wanamaker outlets that he had established in 1973. He had begun working for Woodward & Lothrop in 1966 after working in Baltimore for Stewart & Co. from 1959 to 1965 and briefly for Hochschild Kohn.
A native of the Philadelphia area, he attended the University of Delaware and was an Army officer during World War II. He received a Purple Heart for a wound he suffered in the Battle of the Bulge. His father and grandfather also had worked at Wanamaker's iPhiladelphia, where he started.
Services for Mr. Mink were set for 11 a.m. today at the Aldan, Pa., Union Church.
He is survived by his wife of 51 years, the former Grace Newlin; three sons, David Mink of St. Davids, Pa., Kenneth Mink Jr. of Alexandria, Va., and Frederick Mink of Newark, Del.; a sister, Dorothy Carson of Aldan; a brother, Frederick Mink of Indianapolis; and six grandchildren.
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