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Scott and Cindy Finney, both in their 70's, were friends with Theresa Dyess.
Finney, who would have been 77 on July 24, and Cindy "lost their lives as the result of efforts to help a friend in need." Finney and his wife were shot and killed in Wellton by Carey Hal Dyess, 73, of Yuma, Thursday. James P. Simpson, 75; Jerrold "Jerry" Shelley, 62, and Theresa Lorraine Sigurdson, 61, Dyess' former wife, were also killed before Dyess took his own life.
Linda Kay Clatone, 52, was wounded and flown to Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, where she was last reported to be in critical but stable condition.
Henry Scott Finney was born in Holbrook, AZ, to Jim and Leola Finney and moved with his family to Show Low in 1939, where he attended school until joining the Marine Corps during the Korean War in 1952. He was a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War.
Finney, known as "Scott" to his family, was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant in 1955. He then worked as a dispatcher for Hopper Trucking and later had his own trucking business in Ehrenberg, Arizona.
Finney is survived by one brother, Neil (Barbra) of Show Low, and three sisters, Judi of Show Low, Tonya (Morris) Harvey of Springfield, Ore., and Jo Ann Hatch of Pinedale.
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Scott and Cindy Finney, both in their 70's, were friends with Theresa Dyess.
Finney, who would have been 77 on July 24, and Cindy "lost their lives as the result of efforts to help a friend in need." Finney and his wife were shot and killed in Wellton by Carey Hal Dyess, 73, of Yuma, Thursday. James P. Simpson, 75; Jerrold "Jerry" Shelley, 62, and Theresa Lorraine Sigurdson, 61, Dyess' former wife, were also killed before Dyess took his own life.
Linda Kay Clatone, 52, was wounded and flown to Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, where she was last reported to be in critical but stable condition.
Henry Scott Finney was born in Holbrook, AZ, to Jim and Leola Finney and moved with his family to Show Low in 1939, where he attended school until joining the Marine Corps during the Korean War in 1952. He was a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War.
Finney, known as "Scott" to his family, was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant in 1955. He then worked as a dispatcher for Hopper Trucking and later had his own trucking business in Ehrenberg, Arizona.
Finney is survived by one brother, Neil (Barbra) of Show Low, and three sisters, Judi of Show Low, Tonya (Morris) Harvey of Springfield, Ore., and Jo Ann Hatch of Pinedale.
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