Kris Rink

Kris M. Rink, Jr. was a young man from the Westbank community of Marrero whose life mattered deeply to the family and friends who named him son, brother, stepson and godfather. Though public records about his life are limited, the available notices show a close-knit family whose loss in March 2010 left lasting grief: his parents, Kris M. Rink, Sr. and Sheila F. Chiasson (and stepmother Truly J. Rink), siblings Chaz J. and Paige Rink, and extended relatives including grandparents Lois Guidry Rink and Wilbert E. Rink were publicly identified in family memorials that remembered him as “the late Kris M. Rink, Jr.”

Those who gathered for services at Mothe Funeral Home in Marrero sought to honor the bond he shared with family members and the small everyday roles that make lives meaningful — a beloved son and brother, and a godfather to a young child named in family notices. While many of the details of Kris’s personal interests, work, or schooling do not appear in the public record available to researchers, the family-centered obituary for his father and the local memorial listings make clear that Kris Jr. was part of an extended family who carried his memory forward.

When friends and relatives visited the funeral home parlor to offer condolences, they did so for a person who mattered to others in very ordinary, human ways: as someone’s child, sibling, and godparent. That human connection — how a life touches other lives — is the heart of what is remembered. Though the record of his death is a painful fact in public sources, the emphasis here is on Kris’s place in a family that continued to honor him in subsequent memorials.

Because publicly available obituary and news listings are sparse, this remembrance avoids speculation and centers what is verifiable: Kris M. Rink, Jr. was a 23-year-old from the Marrero/New Orleans area whose death in early March 2010 was mourned by named family members and friends. His memory endures through those who called him son, brother, and godfather, and through the small, private rituals of remembrance that families hold when a young life ends too soon.