Obit for Finley, Fay Geneva [Craddock] - Grady County OK

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::Verden Cemetery--Verden OK

© The Chickasha Express-Star Monday, 27 March 2006

Fay Geneva [Craddock] Finley

Funeral service for Fay Geneva Finley, 89, of Verden, will be held at 2:00 
p.m. on Monday, March 27, 2006, at the First Baptist Church of Verden. 
Rev. Johnny Wray will officiate and Rev. Edward Whitley will assist.

Fay was born the daughter of Alonzo Shields Craddock and Ada Susan Church 
Craddock on January 18, 1917 in Verden, Oklahoma. She died at her home on 
March 24, 2006 in Verden.

Fay lived in Verden all of her life and attended Verden High School where 
she was an All-State basketball player.

She married W. Aubrey Finley on January 13, 1934, in Anadarko, Oklahoma 
and they farmed and ranched north of Verden. In 1953, Fay and Aubrey moved 
to the home they built in town. In the early 1950s, she began working for 
the Verden Prairie Gin as a bookkeeper and retired in 1978.

She was a member of the Verden First Baptist Church where she was a Sunday 
school teacher. Fay was the matriarch of her family, but was greatly loved 
by her Verden family and church family. She made the most beautiful 
handmade quilts which she gave to her kids and grandkids. Fay was also a 
wonderful cook which she passed along to her kids and grandkids, as well 
as others. The kids of her church and of Verden loved her and called her 
"Granny Fay."

She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers, two sisters, her 
husband, one infant daughter, Norma Lou Finley, and one son, Aubrey Keith 
Finley, one son-in-law Max Upchurch.

Survivors include: son: Ansel Finley of Anadarko; daughter: Sue Ann 
Upchurch of Anadarko; daughter & husband: Rosalee & Clifford Nath of 
Anadarko; grandchildren: Kyle Finley, RenŽ Sanders, Debra Harper, Cindi 
Upchurch, Bret Nath, Tammy Williams, Bart Nath, Bryan Finley, Robyn 
McLemore, Stacey Bonham; thirty three great grandchildren; nineteen great 
great grandchildren.

Interment will be in the Verden Cemetery under the direction of the 
McRay's Verden Funeral Home.
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