OBIT: Alice R. (OPEL) FINCH, 1985, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  Mrs. Alice R. Finch, 58, Mecca Market cashier
  
    FARMDALE- Mrs. Alice Ruth Finch, 58, 9895 Dennison-Ashtabula Road, Greene
  Township, died at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Trumbull Memorial Hospital, Warren,
  after several months of illness.
    She was born Oct. 3, 1927, in Somerset, Pa., the daughter of James and
  Almeda Walker Opel.
    A resident here 31 years, coming from Mecca.  Mrs. Finch was employed as
  head cashier at Mecca Market where she was employed for 15 years.
    She was a member of East Mecca Community Church and Greene VFW Auxiliary.
    Survivors include her husband, Oakley F. Finch, whom she married Feb. 15,
  1947; five sons, James of Mecca, Floyd "Tim" of Charleston, S.C., Mark of
  West Mecca, Shane and William of Greene; two sisters, Mrs. Donald (Anne)
  Schmidt of Downey, Calif., Mrs. Charles (Eloise) Shafer of Mecca; and seven
  grandchildren. A son, John, died in 1979.
    The funeral will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at Shafer-Winans Funeral Home,
  Cortland.  Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery, Greene.
    Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday.
    The family requests material tributes take the form of contributions to
  Greene Community Church or Greene Church of the Nazarene.
  
  Warren Ohio Tribune, December 6, 1985
  
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