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| Name Homer Ellis Finger #8781 |
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| Born 8 Oct 1916 |
Place Ripley, Tippah, Mississippi |
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| Died 25 May 2008 |
Place Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina |
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| Father | Mother Bertha Wright Rogers - #8784 |
Found him on the 1940 Other Places, Tippah, Mississippi census (dist 70-6 img 23) as Ellis Finger age 23.
Single, living at home. Studying for ministry.
Bishop Finis A. Crutchfield of Houston became the new president of the council at its spring meeting, succeeding Bishop H. Ellis Finger Jr. of Knoxville, Tenn. - Finger Lakes Times May 15, 1982
Bishop Finis A. Crutchfield of Houston became the new president of the council at its spring meeting, succeeding Bishop H. Ellis Finger Jr. of Knoxville, Tenn. - Finger Lakes Times May 15, 1982
Asheville - Homer Ellis Finger, Jr., of Givens Estates, died Sunday, May 25, 2008.
Born October 8, 1916, in Ripley, Miss., he was the son of the late Homer Ellis Finger and Bertha Rogers Finger and was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Mamie Lee Ratliff Finger in 2006.
He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss. and received a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University Divinity School. He held honorary degrees from five colleges.
He was pastor of the Coldwater, Miss. and Oxford University United Methodist Churches before his election as president of Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss. He served as a Chaplain, USNR, in World War II.
He was elected in 1964 to the Episcopacy in the United Methodist Church and served in the Nashville, Tenn. Episcopal area for twelve years and the Holston area in Knoxville, Tenn. for eight years.
Bishop Finger's churchwide ministries include the chair of the Commission on Deaconesses, chair of the Commission on Chaplains and Related Ministries, President of General Council of Finance and Administration, chair of Division of Health and Welfare Ministries and on the Board of Global Ministries. He was President of the Council of Bishops 1980-1981 and after his retirement in 1984, he served as Administrative Assistant Secretary to the Council of Bishops for twelve years.
Bishop Finger is survived by two sons, Homer Ellis Finger, III and his wife, Phyllis, of Easton, Penn., William Ratliff Finger and his wife, Georgia, of Raleigh; daughter, Elizabeth Ellen Finger and her husband, Richard Vander Veen, of Arden; and five grandchildren.
A memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Asheville in the Norma F. Pulliam Memorial Chapel at Givens Estates.
Born October 8, 1916, in Ripley, Miss., he was the son of the late Homer Ellis Finger and Bertha Rogers Finger and was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Mamie Lee Ratliff Finger in 2006.
He was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss. and received a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University Divinity School. He held honorary degrees from five colleges.
He was pastor of the Coldwater, Miss. and Oxford University United Methodist Churches before his election as president of Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss. He served as a Chaplain, USNR, in World War II.
He was elected in 1964 to the Episcopacy in the United Methodist Church and served in the Nashville, Tenn. Episcopal area for twelve years and the Holston area in Knoxville, Tenn. for eight years.
Bishop Finger's churchwide ministries include the chair of the Commission on Deaconesses, chair of the Commission on Chaplains and Related Ministries, President of General Council of Finance and Administration, chair of Division of Health and Welfare Ministries and on the Board of Global Ministries. He was President of the Council of Bishops 1980-1981 and after his retirement in 1984, he served as Administrative Assistant Secretary to the Council of Bishops for twelve years.
Bishop Finger is survived by two sons, Homer Ellis Finger, III and his wife, Phyllis, of Easton, Penn., William Ratliff Finger and his wife, Georgia, of Raleigh; daughter, Elizabeth Ellen Finger and her husband, Richard Vander Veen, of Arden; and five grandchildren.
A memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Asheville in the Norma F. Pulliam Memorial Chapel at Givens Estates.
| John Martin Finger 1813
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| Martin Luther Finger 1858 |
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| | Cerena Athanat Arnold 1821
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