Mary Claire Brink
12/21/1958 - 07/08/2025
Mary Claire Brink, 66, of Lexington, North Carolina, passed away on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, at Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center in Winston Salem.
Mary was born in Davidson County, North Carolina on December 21, 1958, to the late Harold Leland Brink and Daphne Kathleen Smith.
Mary was a graduate of Central Davidson High School and UNC-G. She was employed by Design Engineering.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Survivors include her three sisters, Janet Brink, Kathryn Athey (James “Butch”) and Barbara Bodenhamer (Harold “Bo”); a nephew, Kevin Athey; and three nieces, Meagan McKnight, Hannah Bodenhamer, and Rachel Bodenhamer.
No services are scheduled currently scheduled at this time.
We at Affordable Funerals and Cremations of Davidson County, are honored to be serving the Brink family.
Mary was such a sweet and smart person.I am so sorry for your loss.
Mary never forgot anything she ever read. She could tell you about a tree, a bug, a bird or animal if you had a question. She was helping a great-niece with Advanced Trigonometry homework while in her 50’s. She loved hearing crows call and watching bluebirds leave the nest and seeing the first butterflies of spring. She could quote Shakespeare, Robert Frost and almost every line in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”
She was my little sister and I will miss her every day for the rest of my life.
I’ll catch up with you later, Sis.
It’s taken me a while to think of the right words for my Aunt Mary, and I still don’t know if I have. I think that says something about how special she was. She had varied interests, was fiercely independent, and had a sense of humour I can relate to — absurdist and dry.
Love doesn’t end with loss. These things will carry forward through the rest of us. I’m so glad I get to call her my family.