Edward Jason Fink

Born December 8, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts, son of the late Harry and Tina Fink.

Ed graduated from Miami Senior High School in 1946 and immediately joined the Army as a medical technician where he served in northern Italy. He left the Army in 1949 but remained in the Army reserves. He was called up by the Army reserves in 1951 where he worked in an Army band playing music in several venues. He subsequently went into the Air Force initially as a medic and later joined an Air Force band. He left the Air Force in 1953 and attended the University of Georgia where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1958 and met his wife, Barbara. He did subsequent work at the Quarantine station in Algiers where he did research as part of the Aedes aegypti eradication program. He received his Master's Degree in Public Health at Tulane University in 1969. In 1970, he was transferred to New York and worked at Kennedy airport until he retired in 1983. He then moved to Durham, North Carolina where he taught the life and times of Charles Darwin at the DILR program at Duke University. He finally moved to New Orleans in 2015, following the death of his beloved wife, Barbara.

Mr. Fink was an aficionado of music enjoying listening to and playing music, particularly Jazz. In 2016, he discovered his amazing singing voice. He was also an active scholar studying evolution and neurobiology in his later years.

Mr. Fink is survived by two sons, Mark and wife Kit, Daniel and wife Debbie; grandson Yashar, several nieces and nephews; and numerous friends and colleagues.

The family in particular wishes to thank all the staff at Inspired Living - Kenner for making his time there special.