This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Newman, Finley, Shaffner Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5557 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 24 Oct 2002 Finley ARTESIA, NM – Graveside services for Eloise Newman Finley, 95, of Milano were held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, 2002, at Twin Oaks Cemetery in Artesia, NM, with Rev. Dean DeSelms of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church of Carlsbad, NM, officiating. Mrs. Finley died Tuesday, Oct. 15, in Cameron. She was born April 11, 1907, in Milano to Louis and Millie (Shaffner) Newman. Raised in Milano, she lived in Artesia, NM, for 41 years before moving back to Milano in 1986 where she resided for the past 16 years. She married Harry E. Finley on Dec. 20, 1947, in San Angelo. Mrs. Finley attended school at Southwest Texas Teacher College (now Southwest Texas State University) in San Marcos and also at New Mexico State and Colorado State universities. She taught school in Artesia, NM, from 1945 until her retirement in 1972. She taught in Abbo Elementary, the first completely underground school in the United States. She also taught in Liberty, Milano, Friendswood and Lexington. Mrs. Finley was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Carlsbad, NM, a life member of New Mexico PTA, and a member of the Lake Arthur No. 24 Order of the Easter Star in Artesia, NM. Preceding her in death were her husband, Harry E. Finley; three brothers, Dan, Carl and Walter Herbert Newman; and a sister, Ester Mae Newman. Survivors are two sisters, Mildred "Tootsie" Martin and husband U.W. "Bully" of Garrison, and Evelyn Watson of Chesapeake, VA; a sister-in-law, Martha F. Newman of Milano; two nieces, Mary Lou Martin Pogue and husband Kenneth of Grapeland and Gay Watson Turner and husband Rick of Chesapeake, VA; four nephews, Gregory Newman and wife Lynne of McDade, Bill Watson of Beaumont; Kenneth Martin and wife Rene of Lufkin and Mark Newman and wife Carol of Milano; also, a number of great-nieces and nephews.