Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....FINEIS, Nevene (Hayes) (Mrs. Erwin (Pete)) August 1, 1991
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin of the Sebewa Center Association, Volume 27, June 1992, Number 6; submitted with permission of Editor Grayden D. Slowins
Navene Fineis was born in Muir, August 7, 1904, died in Ionia, August 1, 1991, 
six days short of her 87th birthday.  She was the daughter of Fanchon (Rowe) & 
Austin C. Hayes, son of Nathan B. Hayes, son of Hector Hayes.  She was 
graduated from Ionia High School in 1922 and Mount Ida School for Girls in 
Newton, Massachusetts, in 1925.  She worked at Hayes Auto-Body as a secretary, 
as secretary to the Commissioner of Agriculture in Lansing (probably Herbert E. 
Powell of Ionia), and as a stenographer in the Michigan House of 
Representatives.  She was married April 3, 1937, to Erwin (Pete) Fineis, and 
together they owned & operated Fineis Oil Company and later Pete's Tavern.  
They also owned the old horse-racing track in Sarnac and extensive pine re-
forestation lands.  After his death in 1959, she operated the tavern for 
another 25 years by herself.  She is survived by a daughter....sons....ten 
grandchildren, and her sister Maxine Zemer of Ioniaa.  She was taken for burial 
from St. John's Lutheran Church to North Plains Cemetery.

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