Charles Blaine Finn 1884-1969

FINN, WORT, BREWSTER, LOGAN, KOPRUCKI, VICKSTROM, MESSER, MILLER, WATTS

Posted By: Nancy Peterson (email)
Date: 5/25/2004 at 16:48:32

Charles Finn Succumbs

Bison area learned with sorrow last week of the death of Mr. Charles Finn, 84, who has been a cancer patient at Northwest Hospital in Des Moines for several weeks. Mrs. Finn and his daughters have been at his side providing loving care.

Funeral services were held July 5 in Mt. Pleasant, Ia., with Elder Willard G. Lowin of the Seventh Day Adventish Church of Ottumwa, Ia., officiating. Internment was in Center Chapel Cemetery in Van Buren County, Iowa.

The son of James and Sarah Wort Finn, he was born October 14, 1884 in Jasper Co. Ia. He lived in Mt. Pleasant, Ia., until following his marriage to Mrs. Ivy Schaffer of Bison in 1967, then he moved here and remained until illiness forced him to see hospitalization.

He was first married to Crete Brewster on April 22,1911 in Van Buren Co, Ia,. Six daughters were born to them. Mrs. Finn died August 22, 1965. On April 2, 1967 he was married to Ivy C. Shaffer who survives.

In March of 1907 Mr. Finn and his brother Ed and brother-in-law T.W. Eller filed on claims in Scotch Cap township near Bison. After proving up he returned to Iowa. Then he brought his family out in 1916 and bought what is now the Byron Matthews farm. They returned to Iowa in 1920 and located at Mt. Pleasant where he worked at various trades and operated a small farm. After his marriage to Mrs. Shaffer they resided in Bison, makeing frequent trips back to Iowa to visit his family, and recently to seek medical attention.

As a young man he was interested in vocal music and with his younger brother, Ed, two sisters, (the late Mrs. T,W.(Alwilda)Ellers and Mrs. Will(Emma) Humphrey) early residents here also, participated in choral programs for church and social presentation. He was affiliated with the Methodist Church at Bonaparte, Ia., the Odd Fellows Lodge and Modern Woodmen of America.

He was baptized into the fellowship of the Sevevth Day Adventist Church at Ottumwa, Ia., February 7, 1967 and was a member of the Bison Church at his death.

Suvivors include his wife and six daughters, Mrs. Marvin(Viola) Logan of Homewood, Ill., Mrs. James( Aileen) Koprucki of Bettendorf, Ia., Mrs. Karl(Dorothy) Vickstrom of Burlington, Ia., Mrs. Dwight(Frances) Messer of Des Moines, Ia., Mrs. Carl(Crete) Miller of Ottumwa, Ia.,and Mrs.Keith(Winifred Watts)Smith of Mt. Pleasant, Ia.; three step-children, Mrs stanley Vest,Mrs. Gilbert Bader, Dr.Frank Schaffer, 20 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren, and a neice and two nephews and many friends.

Newspaper unknown but this was from a Bison, S.D. newspaper July 1969