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Genarah Catherine <I>Beckham</I> Finley

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Genarah Catherine Beckham Finley

Birth
Mountain View, Stone County, Arkansas, USA
Death
14 Jul 1959 (aged 92)
Myrtle Point, Coos County, Oregon, USA
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Coquille, Coos County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
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Services were held July 17, 1959 at Schroeder Brothers Chapel for Genarah Catherine Beckham Finley, who died at Mast Hospital in Myrtle Point on July 14 at the age of 92. Rev. GC Brown of Emmanuel Baptist Church officiated. Burial was at Masonic Cemetery in Coquille.
Mrs. Finley was born at Mountain View, Stone County, Arkansas December 18, 1866. She married Edwin Benjamin Finley Jan 28, 1892 in Izard County, Arkansas. She and her family moved to Texas in 1900 and to Coquille in 1911.
She read the Bible completely many times and was fond of quoting from the book of Romans. She was a charter member of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Coquille. She was against anyone drinking alcohol, and she strongly believed that women should have equal voting rights. She was proud to be elected chairman of the Excelsior school board.
Survivors are her daughters Minnie Stone and Verna Cox of Coquille, and Bess Hockema of Pistol River, her sons, Guy, Cince, and Zed Finley of Coquille, nineteen grandchildren, twenty-one great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ed Finley and her son, Hugh Finley.
Services were held July 17, 1959 at Schroeder Brothers Chapel for Genarah Catherine Beckham Finley, who died at Mast Hospital in Myrtle Point on July 14 at the age of 92. Rev. GC Brown of Emmanuel Baptist Church officiated. Burial was at Masonic Cemetery in Coquille.
Mrs. Finley was born at Mountain View, Stone County, Arkansas December 18, 1866. She married Edwin Benjamin Finley Jan 28, 1892 in Izard County, Arkansas. She and her family moved to Texas in 1900 and to Coquille in 1911.
She read the Bible completely many times and was fond of quoting from the book of Romans. She was a charter member of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Coquille. She was against anyone drinking alcohol, and she strongly believed that women should have equal voting rights. She was proud to be elected chairman of the Excelsior school board.
Survivors are her daughters Minnie Stone and Verna Cox of Coquille, and Bess Hockema of Pistol River, her sons, Guy, Cince, and Zed Finley of Coquille, nineteen grandchildren, twenty-one great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ed Finley and her son, Hugh Finley.

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