Obituary Record

Evelyn M (Behrens) Finch
Died on 7/12/1990
Buried in Blair Cemetery

Evelyn M. Finch, 63

Funeral services were held Monday, July 16 at the Congregational Church in Blair for Evelyn M. Finch, age 63, who died July 12, 1990, at the Memorial Community Hospital in Blair following a lengthy illness. Rev. Debra Tompsett-Welch and Rev. Harold Schaible officiated. Burial was in the Blair Cemetery.

Evelyn M. Finch was born August 19, 1926, in Whiting, Iowa, to George and Cecil Cochran Behrens. She grew up in Whiting and graduated from Whiting High School.

On September 22, 1947, she married Faye Nilson at Atkinson, Nebraska. They lived in several towns prior to her husband’s death on March 24, 1961. She moved to Blair shortly after his death.

She married W. Duane Finch September 19, 1964, in Blair.

She cleaned the Blair Bank and several homes in the Blair area for 14 years along with her husband Duane. She loved flowers and enjoyed raising them at her home. She was a member of the Congregational Church, Blair American Legion Auxiliary, Dodge County 8/40, and was a Charter Member of the Blair Fireman’s Auxiliary.

She was preceded in death by her father; first husband, Faye, and son, Carl, who died in infancy. She is survived by her husband W. Duane of Blair; daughter and son-in-law Margaretta and John Hanlon, Jr.; daughter, Nancy Jo Nilson and son, Michael; and daughter-in-law, Denise Nilson, all of Omaha; one grandson, Christopher Hanlon; a brother, Walter Behrens of Sioux City, Iowa, and two sisters, Ilene Hollinger of Omaha and Georgieanne Bruce of Morris, Illinois.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

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