ZINKY, Franklin A.

West Valley View, Avondale, Arizona, Friday, March 01, 2013 Franklin A. Zinky, 78, of Litchfield Park died Feb. 19, 2013, in Surprise. Mr. Zinky was born March 17, 1934, in Milwaukee. He attended Washington High School, where he was on the track team and placed first at the Milwaukee Cross Country Race his senior year. Upon graduation, he enlisted into the Air Force for three years during the Korean War. After his service, he joined the Air Force Reserve and received his commission of second lieutenant in July 1960. While attending University of Illinois, Urbana, he earned his bachelor's degree, learned to fly and ultimately taught flying. He went on to earn his master's degree from Illinois State, Bloomington. Throughout his early life, he worked a variety of jobs, starting as a paperboy at a young age, bartender, taxi cab driver, fighting forest fires in the mountains of Montana and flying for TWA out of Chicago O'Hare. In 1963, he married Margaret Miquelon. After teaching high school for four years in the Chicago suburbs, they moved downstate. They moved to Arizona in 1972, where he continued his educational career teaching in the Phoenix Union High School District as a drafting and auto shop teacher at East, Trevor Browne, Central and Camelback high schools. Upon his retirement, they moved to Litchfield Park. He is survived by his wife, Margaret; one daughter, Marlene Capristo of Avondale; one son, Allan Zinky of Peoria; and one sister, Grace Schaefer of Milwaukee. No services are scheduled. Memorials can be made to the Arizona Humane Society at azhumane.org.