Winifred Wink Jonas, 96, of Brethren Village, Pennsylvania died peacefully on April 13, 2021. Born in Martinsville, Virginia she was the daughter of Charles Irving and Winifred Waverly (Atkinson) Smith. She was proceeded in death by her loving husband of 67 years, George Herbert ( Herb ) Jonas.
When she was a child, Wink s family moved from Martinsville to a small tobacco farm in North Carolina where she learned to work hard helping her family operate the farm during the Great Depression. After her graduation as valedictorian of her high school class in 1942, she attended Pfeiffer University, then Furman University, where she earned a bachelor s degree in science and mathematics in 1946.