Mary
Frances Pickens Finley
ABILENE
REPORTER NEWS
AUGUST 5, 1958
MRS. FINLEY DIES AT 100
LORAINE ~ Funeral for Mrs. W.H. Finley who died Monday afternoon at the age
of 100 was to be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Loraine Methodist Church.
Officiating was to be Rev. Merle Abbott. Burial was slated in the Loraine
Cemetery under the direction of Wells Funeral Home of Roscoe.
Born October 24, 1857 in Searcy, Arkansas, she married William Hugh Finley
in 1874 and they moved to Texas 10 years later, settling at Hico.
They moved to a farm north of Loraine in 1907 and into Loraine a few years
later.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Lily Bennett of Loraine, Mrs. Ira
Crownover of Odessa
and Mrs. L.D. Sowell of Carlton.
Daughter of James Pickens and Rebecca Pierson Finley
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