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Wayne Hathaway Tinker

Ridgefield, Connecticut

1931 - 2025

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Wayne Hathaway Tinker Wayne Hathaway Tinker, affectionately known as 'Tinker' or 'Tink', born on January 29, 1931, passed away peacefully at his home of 60 years in Ridgefield, CT, surrounded by his loving wife and children, on February 15, 2025. Raised in Wilton, CT, he graduated from Staples...

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My deepest condolences Dave, Courtney and family. Danielle DeWeese

Tink touched many lives and he certainly touched mine when we were making hay and milking the cows for Hubie Smith in the late 1950´s. Many memories...his green international pickup FLYING up Drum Hill...riding on his motorcycle....and one of his many songs ......I saw Esau sittin´ on the see saw, I saw Esau he saw me..... He was a fine man and will be missed !

When I looked at the Wilton Bulletin today I was saddened to see "Tink's" face in the obit column. When I was a young woman in Wilton, my fiance and I hired Tink to do all the stonework on our new home. This was in 1963 and we would all go to the site on Borglum Road and work at night with large photographer's floodlights to see what we were doing. One night we heard a large crash and yell and found that Tink had fallen through the empty stair well from the roof to the first floor. We ran...