This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Finn, Boeker, Walzel Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9668 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 22 June 2006 Eloise Finn, 86, died Thursday, June 15, 2006 at her home in Rockdale. Funeral services were held 1 p.m. Saturday, June 17 at Phillips and Luckey Funeral Home in Rockdale with Rev. Trish Holland officiating. Burial followed in the Hugh Wilson Cemetery in Tanglewood. Mrs. Finn was born Aug. 9, 1919 in Edna to Charlie and Annie (Walzel) Boeker. She married Graham Finn on Feb. 4, 1937 in Houston. She was a secretary with the Aldine I.S.D. for 19 years before retiring in 1982. Mrs. Finn was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Rockdale, Presbyterian Women, and Tuesday morning Bible study. She was also member of Retired Teachers Association. She volunteered with Meals on Wheels, Rockdale Food Pantry and the school nurse office. Mrs. Finn also enjoyed yard work, her flowers and animals, loved to polka and do the chicken dance. In 2002, Mrs. Finn was named Milam County Home Extension Service hometown hero. Mrs. Finn was a resident of Rockdale for the past 22 years and formerly of Aldine. Survivors include two daughters, Linda Morris and Rodney Clanton of Conroe and Nicki Pounders and husband Freddy of Rockdale; sister, Berta Lee Wallace of Pasadena; three grandchildren, Jo Lynn Bearden and husband Terry of Flower Mound, Nicki Siebt and husband Ian of Chelsea, AL and Jason Pounders of Rockdale; nine great-grandchildren, Maranda and Rainey Pounders, Landon Pounders, Taylor, Jordan, Payton and Landon Siebt, Courtney and Haylie Bearden. Pallbearers include Freddie Pounders, Jason Pounders, Jim Pounders, Terry Bearden, Don Stockton and Willem Stockton.