PIONEER RESIDENT OF WEST LIBERTY SUCCUMBS ON FARM------ Mrs. Caroline Finley, wife of James Finley and mother of Robert Finley of this city, who died at her home on a farm near West Liberty, Wednesday night, will be buried tomorrow, according to funeral arrangements perfected today. The services are announced to be held from the Moscow Methodist Episcopal church at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The death of Mrs. Finley followed an illness of more than a year, during which she had suffered of a compliction of diseases. She was 62 years of age. For almost forty years she had been a resident of Muscatine County, coming here from Pennsylvania as a young girl. Thirteen children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Finley, eleven of whom survive. The surviving children are Robert Finley, Muscatine; Fred Finley, Nichols; George Finley, Kansas City, MO; Mrs. Sherman Lange, Moscow; Mrs. June Brunswick, Sylvis, Ill; Mrs. Clark Askam, Frank, John, Arthur, Howard and William Finley of West Liberty. Besides her husband, Mrs. Finley survived by two brothers and a sister who are Fred Geesy of Muscatine, residing on Cedar street; John Geesy of Wilkes Barre, PA; and Mrs. Elizabeth Conrad of West Tipton, PA.
PIONEER RESIDENT OF WEST LIBERTY SUCCUMBS ON FARM------ Mrs. Caroline Finley, wife of James Finley and mother of Robert Finley of this city, who died at her home on a farm near West Liberty, Wednesday night, will be buried tomorrow, according to funeral arrangements perfected today. The services are announced to be held from the Moscow Methodist Episcopal church at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The death of Mrs. Finley followed an illness of more than a year, during which she had suffered of a compliction of diseases. She was 62 years of age. For almost forty years she had been a resident of Muscatine County, coming here from Pennsylvania as a young girl. Thirteen children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Finley, eleven of whom survive. The surviving children are Robert Finley, Muscatine; Fred Finley, Nichols; George Finley, Kansas City, MO; Mrs. Sherman Lange, Moscow; Mrs. June Brunswick, Sylvis, Ill; Mrs. Clark Askam, Frank, John, Arthur, Howard and William Finley of West Liberty. Besides her husband, Mrs. Finley survived by two brothers and a sister who are Fred Geesy of Muscatine, residing on Cedar street; John Geesy of Wilkes Barre, PA; and Mrs. Elizabeth Conrad of West Tipton, PA.
Family Members
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Anna Catherine Finley Lange
1872–1951
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George Alexander Finley
1873–1941
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Fred Finley
1874–1949
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John Finley
1876–1940
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Robert Thomas Finley
1878–1949
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Della Finley Brunswig
1881–1967
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Howard Finley
1883–1956
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Frank Albert Finley
1884–1976
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William Henry Finley
1886–1969
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Arthur H. Finley
1889–1970
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Clara L. Finley
1893–1893
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Bertha M. Finley
1894–1894
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Erma Evelyn Finley Askam
1896–1970
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