Cora Lavada Pink

Cora Lavada Pink, a resident of Concordia Lutheran Ministries in Cabot, PA passed away on April 29, 2023 at Butler Memorial Hospital at age 96. She was born April 27, 1927 in Portersville, PA to Charles Wilbur and Melda Bortz Wright. She graduated from Butler High School and Butler Memorial Hospital school of nursing. Cora was employed at VAMC in Butler completing classes to become a nurse practitioner and completed 30 years of service in the VA system.
Surviving are her husband, James Patrick Pink, 3 daughters Karen Mahood of Chandler, AZ, Deborah (Mahood) Avnet of Thousand Oaks, CA, Jamie (Pink) Johnson of Fairmont, WV, 1 son Stephen Pink of Crescent, PA, 9 grandchildren, and 1 great granddaughter.
Cora was preceded in death by 2 husbands, Robert Mahood and John Siekaniec, both of Butler, both parents, and her sister Pauline Berry.
Her body was donated to University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for research through Human Gift Registry as in true nurse fashion, she was “always giving!”
There will be a private burial with no services.
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