Edith Finney
BAILEY, FINNEY, WILCOX, HINES
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Date: 4/14/2020 at 11:14:30
Cedar Rapids Gazette Monday Sept. 8, 1941
Mrs. John B. Finney, Active In Club Work, Died Sunday AfternoonMrs. Edith Bailey Finney, wife of John B. Finney, died at the family residence, 1815 Washington avenue SE, at 4:20 p.m. Sunday following an illness of several months. Born at Dyersville, the daughter of Henry M. and Laura Foster Bailey, she had lived for the last 33 years in Marion and Cedar Rapids. She came to Marion with her parents when a small child and had attended schools and was graduated from the Marion high school and later attended Cornell college where she majored in music and harmony. She had also studied piano for four years in Minneapolis with Emil Zoch and pipe organ of J. Warren Andrews.
While a resident of Marion, she was a member of the Methodist church where she began an organist at the age of 13 and played in that church until 1910. She had been a teacher of piano and pipe organ and for a number of years. She was a charter member of the P.E.O. at Marion.
On April 28, 1904, at Marion, she was married to John B. Finney, who with one son, J. Bailey Finney survives. She also leaves two sisters; Mrs. E.E. Wilcox of Cedar Rapids and Mrs. W.T. Hines of Yakima, Wash.; two brothers; Dr. W.H. Bailey of Denver, Colo., and Ralph F. Bailey of Yakima, Wash.
She was a member of St. Paul's Methodist church, the Wednesday Shakespeare club and board of managers for the Home for Aged Women.
Funeral services will be held in the Turner chapel at 2 p.m. Tuesday conducted by the Rev. Charles J. Bready. Burial will be made in Oak Shade cemetery at Marion. Friends may call at the chapel.
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