NELL RUTH FINLEY

LAMAR- Services will be held at 4 p.m. Monday at Daniel Funeral Home for Nell Ruth Finley, 98, Lamar, who died Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, at St. Luke’s Nursing Center in Carthage.

Visitation will be held prior to the service, beginning at 3 p.m.

Contributions are suggested and made payable to the American Red Cross, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.dfhlamar.com.

Survivors include a daughter-in-law, Lynn Finley, Lamar; one grandchild, Kelly Finley, Carthage, Texas and two great-grandchildren, Lacey Finley and Dru Finley, both of Lamar.

She was preceded in death by both husbands, one son, James Anthony Finley; one grandson, Joshua Aaron Finley and two sisters, Robbie Sue King and Betty Jo Prieskorn.

Mrs. Finley was born May 19, 1924, in Mortons Gap, Ky., to Lewis Johnston and Blanche (Allen) Johnston. She was married to James B. Finley from 1944 until his death in 1993. Their son James Anthony Finley was born in 1944 and died in 2014. She married Gerald Voorhees in 2004 and he died in 2016.

During WWII she was a welder on airplanes. She volunteered with the Red Cross for over 50 years and was a member of the First Baptist Church of Lamar. She would often take in animals and care for them until they could be reunited with their owners.