Frances Cowne Finnin, age 102, of Hundred, WV died Monday, July 23, 2012. She was born in Midland, Virginia March 16, 1910, the eldest child of Effie (Boteler) and Cameron Cowne. Her parents, brothers Augustine, Cameron, Jr., and John Boteler Cowne, a daughter Frances Anne Deputy, and husbands John William Deputy and Gerald Finnin preceeded her in death.
Frances was a certified Director of Christian Education for the United Methodist Church for many years and served churches in Washington, DC, Alexandria, Virginia, Tampa, Florida, and Las Vegas, Nevada. After retirement she taught kindergarten at Calvary Christian School in Las Vegas, Nevada for ten years.
She was a member of the D. C. chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Eastern Star. Her final church home was the Rush Run United Methodit Church in Burton, WV, where she found comfort and joy in being a part of the family of God.
Frances is survived by her sister, Suzanne (Cowne) Watts of McLean, VA; two daughters and sons-in-law, Mary-Linda (Deputy) and Gary Hampton of Locust Grove,Virginia and Carolyn (Deputy) and Richard Crone-Aamot of Hundred, WV; and two sons and daughters-in-law, John William and Joyce Deputy, Jr. of Mathews, Virginia and Paul Milton and Darci Deputy of Salt Lake City, Utah. Also surviving are seven grandchildren, Kathy Lynn, Anthony Wade, and Andrew Jon, William Bauman, Frances Anne and David Urban and Alexandra Frances; fourteen great-grandchildren, Stephanie and Kathleen; Amanda and Andrew; Abagail, Madeline and Luke; Rebecca, Ashley, Hannah, and Faith; Bryan Robert; Emma and Brady, and five great-great-grandchildren, Asher and Rose, Mason, Alex and Addison.
She is survived by her very dear friends, Nancy, Dell, Vera, Mildred, Ruth, Mary and Lynn; and her special caregivers, Brenda, Suzie, Tommy, Lora, Debbie, Regina and Steve Barbe and Dr. Rick Spencer.
Ms. Finnin was clear in her mind to the very last moment of her long and interesting life. Although slowed down by a stroke on her 70th birthday, she never lost her zest for living nor missed an opportunity to say an encouraging word to anyone she met. In her late nineties, she flew out to Salt Lake City, Utah to attend the wedding of a granddaughter, and at 99, she accompanied her four children and their spouses on a cruise to Bermuda.
At her request, there will be no funeral home visitation or funeral service. Personal expressions of sympathy or condolences may be made to her memory to the Rush Run United Methodist Church, Burton. WV
The Tennant Funeral Home in Hundred has been entrusted with the arrangements.
Her cremains, along with her husband's cremains, will be interred beside her daughter at the National Cemetery, Falls Church, VA at a later date.