Finney, Donnabelle

Mrs. Donnabelle Finney
Aug. 1, 1921-Dec. 29, 1984


Niles Daily Star, Monday, December 31, 1984, page 2, col. 3-4, microfilm Niles District Library

Mrs. Donnabelle Finney, 63, 709 Rynearson St., Buchanan, died at 3:34 p.m. Saturday at Pawating Hospital following an extended illness.

She was a member of the First Church of Christ Christian and the Senior Citizens Bowling League.

Born Aug. 1, 1921 in South Bend, she was a lifetime area resident.

On June 8, 1941 in South Bend, she married Orban Finney, who died Feb. 18, 1974.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Dee Stewart, Mrs. Charlene Pierson, Mrs. Marlene Hunsberger and Mrs. Beverly McCavitt, all of Niles; two brothers, Theodore Roose of Mishawaka, Ind., and Robert Roose of Granger, Ind.; six sisters, Mrs. Mildred Bookmiller of Cleveland; Mrs. Evelyn Vancuren of Mishawaka; Mrs. Elizabeth Beckett of Hohenwald, Tenn., Mrs. Mary Jane Schrader of East Moline, Ill., and Mrs. Audrey Nicodemus and Mrs. Roberta Nemeth, both of South Bend; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

A sister, Mrs. Helen Meyer, died last Friday.

Services will be at 2 p.m Wednesday at the First Church of Christ Christian with Brother Russell Ross of that church officiating. Burial will be at Silverbrook Cemetery.

Friends may call from 2 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Halbritter Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to the First Church of Christ Christian Memorial Fund.