OBITUARY: Earl Frank Finch, Mitchell County, Iowa



                           Earl Frank Finch

[St. Ansgar Enterprise Journal (http://pafways.org), April 17, 2002]

Funeral services for Earl Frank Finch, 80, of Cambridge, who died March 17,
2002 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, were held Thursday, March 21 at
Cambridge Funeral Home - Strike Chapel with Rev. Erling Tungseth
officiating.

Earl was born November 26, 1921, at Deer Creek Township, Worth County, to
Melvin and Alice Finch. He graduated from Otranto High School. Earl then
enlisted in the US Navy serving his country from August 1942 to December
1945, then doing various jobs until 1960 when he started working for the
Department of Natural Resources. He was a heavy equipment operator and
built dams at the Carlos Avery Game Refuge. Earl retired from the DNR in
April 1982.

He was married to Hazel Evgen September 15, 1978 and they made their home
on Skogman Lake in Cambridge. He enjoyed working with wood, stamp collecting,
playing cards, traveling and wintering in Florida.

Earl is survived by his son, Gordon Evgen of Cambridge; sister-in-law
Margaret Finch of Maning; six grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren, three
great great grandchildren.

He was proceded in death by his parents, his wife Hazel; sisters, Florence,
Elna and Iva; a brother Russell.

Burial was in Cambridge Union Cemetery with military honors provided by
Howard McCarty American Legion Post 290 of Cambridge.

St. Ansgar Enterprise Journal 2002 




Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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