Kathryn Cink Natwick
Kathryn Cink Natwick, 79 passed away Friday, November 1, 2024 at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, SD. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30am Friday, November 8, 2024 at St. Christina’s Catholic Church with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-7pm Thursday evening at the church with a Prayer Service/Rosary to be said at 7:00pm. Arrangements by Hofmeister Jones Funeral Home.
Kathryn Cink Natwick was born on August 31, 1945 at McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls to John and Harriet (Hovaldt) Cink. She grew up on the Cink family farm near Parker where she graduated from Parker High School in 1963. After graduating from General Beadle State Teachers College in Madison she taught school in Heron Lake, MN and Pipestone, MN. On June 14, 1972 she was united in marriage to Milo Natwick at St. Christina’s Catholic Church in Parker. They moved to Pueblo, CO for a time before moving back to South Dakota and living on Lake Madison. Kathryn received her Masters Degree in Early Childhood Development from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1987.
Kathryn’s passion was for children and for 33 years she was with ICAP Head Start and Pre Birth to Five Program. She served as a teacher from 1981-1987, an education specialist from 1987-1991 and the director from 1991-2014. Kathryn was well respected by childcare and Head Start on the local, state and national levels. She served as the president of the South Dakota Head Start Association for several years. She was awarded the designation of Johnson and Johnson Fellow from UCLA. In 2013 at the Inter-Lakes Community Action campus in Madison they dedicated the Natwick room in her honor. In 2022 she moved to Sioux Falls where she was a member of St. John Paul II Catholic Parish.
Grateful for having shared her life are her daughter Marlo Natwick, Chamberlain, SD; granddaughter Alexis Cronk, Lincoln, NE; step children Becky Natwick-Edison, Australia and Eric (Trish) Natwick, Madison, SD; grandchildren Erica (David) McPhail, Texas and Milo Natwick, Alaska; 3 great grandchildren and a great great grandchild; 5 brothers and sisters, Jo Marso, Parker, Elaine Wagner, Corsica, Andy (Joyce) Cink, Ankeny, IA, Tom (Mary) Cink, Sioux Falls and Paul (Shirley) Cink, Sioux Falls. She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Harriet Cink , husband Milo, brother Jim and wife Kathy, brother Ed, and brothers-in-law, Tom Marso and Ken Wagner.
