George Morris Beistline Fink IV, 85, died on June 17, 2026 at his home in Chapman, KS. He was born on December 6, 1940, the son of Sylvester Clair and Kathryn Dorothy Good Fink in Carlisle, PA. At age nine he was placed at Milton Hershey School for Boys, Hershey, PA, and was raised then graduated from there in 1959 with an emphasis in sheet metal tinning. He worked for Sears and sheet metal shops until he joined the United States Air Force in 1960 and was stationed at Schilling Air Force Base, Salina, KS. It was there he met and married Mildred Corbett in 1962. He was then stationed at Eaglen AFB, FL; Loring AFB, ME; and Cam Ranh Bay, SVN, discharging in 1968.
He then worked for various companies, opened his own Heating, Ventilation and Conditioning company: Starlite HVAC, and after retiring from federal service at Ft. Riley, operated Finks’ HVAC. He built and remodeled several houses in the Chapman area.
Upon urging from his brothers-in-law he took up golf with a passion, making two holes in one; continuing until he could no longer play due to a diagnosis of the BRCA gene mutation and cancer nearly six years ago rendering him unable to walk. He fought back until he could walk with a cane, and continued cancer treatments until his death, likely to a blood clot. He also had played on a bowling team and loved to fish from his boat on Milford Lake.
He joined the Catholic Church at 80 years of age, was baptized, received Confirmation and made First Communion all on the same day. He was a member of Lawrence-Brunswick American Legion Post 240.
He leaves his wife, Millie, and six children of whom he was very proud: Coleen Floberg
(Michael), Berryton; Michael and Sean, Chapman; Stacey (Christina), Overland Park; Chad (Chrissy), Abilene, and Kevin (Andrea), Plano, TX; 17 grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren, and six step-great grandchildren; one sister CoraEtta Skipper and a special niece, Debbie and her husband Jim Weaver and family, all of PA.
George a/k/a “Buzz”, loved Elvis, classical music, peanut butter cups, tomato juice and Coors Light, football, dogs, professional wrestling and boxing, western movies, classic cars, mowing the lawn, raising a garden, CNN, sausage gravy and biscuits and Hershey’s Kisses. He had a wicked sense of humor and could be heard laughing three rooms away. He was a born tease, loved to ask “Are we having fun yet?” He was much loved in life and greatly missed in death. Funeral Mass is Thursday, June 25, 10:00 a.m. at St. Michael’s Catholic Church, Chapman, with burial of the cremains at St. Patrick’s Cemetery. Visitation will be Wednesday, June 24, 5-6:30 with Rosary at 6:30 p.m. at Londeen-Overlease Funeral Home, Chapman. Memorials can be made to Chapman Golf Course, St. Michael’s Catholic Church, or American Legion Post 240.