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each Mayor
erbert A: Frink former
Miami Beach mayor and long
time member of its City Coun-
cil, was killed Friday in an
accidental shooting at his sum-
mer home near
H e n d e r-
sonville, N.C.
Sheriff's offi-
cers at Hender-
sonville
ender-
sonv ille said
Frink's death
was an accident
that occurred
shortly a f ter
he and two Mi-
ami companions
FRINK returned from
!a nearby field where they had
been testingtheir shotgun&
Frink, 59, was the owner of
Vann Cleaners and Laundry at
Miami Beach, and had gone
to Hendersonville to open his
family's summer home.
With him were Harold G.
Maggard and John Toby Ar-
nold, both of Miami and as-
sociated with Frink in h i s
cleaning business.
Arnold told . Deputy Sheriff
Albert Jackson that soon after
the trio returned to the Frink
home, Maggard went to a
neighbor's house to inquire
about hiring a maid for the
summer. and he, Arnold, went
into the back yard of the
Frink residence.
Arnoldtold officers he heard
"one or two shots" and figured
Frink was continuing to try
his 16 gauge automatic. It
was two minutes or more, Ar-
nold said, before he returned
to the home and found Frink
lying injured on the patio
floor.
An ambulance was called and
took Frink the 16 miles from
the Sugar Loaf Mountain home
to a Hendersonville hospital,
but the former mayor died on
the way.
•
Jackson said there would be
no inquest and that the body
had been released to the Shep-
hard Funeral Home at Hen-
dersonville.
Friends in Miami said Frink
had gone to Thomasville, S.C.,
as was his custom for years,
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to visit his mother's grave on
Mothers Day, and then driv-
en on to Hendersonville. •
He had planned to entertain;
his daughter, Evelyn Diane, a
University of Georgia student,
during the weekend and then
return to his Miami Beach
home at 1700 Jefferson Ave.
on Monday.
Frink was a member of the
Miami Beach City Council con-
tinuously from ;939 until 1949,
serving first as councilman,
then as vice mayor and acting
mayor before serving a two
year term as actual mayor
from 1945 until 1947.
Surviving are his wife, Eve-
lyn; a son, Herbert C. Frink;
the daughter, Evelyn. Diane,
and two grandchildren.
Mr. Frink ' was a member
of the Miami Beach Kiwams
Club a '32nd degree Mason, a
member of the Elks, Odd Fel-
lows, the Mahi Shrine, and the
Rod and Reel Club.
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