Extracted from The Bryan-College Station Eagle (Bryan, TX)
Alta Bullock Finley
Alta Bullock Finlay, 72, of Waco and formerly of Bryan,
died at her residence Thursday, April 17, 1997. Services will be at
2:30 Sunday at Steep Hollow Baptist Church, Dr. Charles Dixon officiating.
Burial will be at the adjacent Steep Hollow Cemetery.
Mrs. Finlay was born in Bryan on August 14, 1924 to Sam and Lillie Saxon
Bullock. Survivors include her husband, Charles Kermit Finlay of Waco;
three daughters, Sue Lingwall, Cindy Smith, both of Georgetown, and Sammye
Worley of Waco; five grandchildren, William R. Garrison II, Mindy Cartwright,
Chris Smith, Courtney Smith, and Troy Worley; two great-grandchildren
Cody and Clay Garrison; a son-in-law Ron Smith of Georgetown.
The family will receive visitors at Callaway-Jones Funeral Home from
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM Saturday evening April 19. Alta's greatest gift was a
loving, uplifting, and inspiring spirit. She loved her family,
immediate and extended. She loved her neighbors. She loved her classmates.
She loved those she worked for, those she worked with, and those who
worked for her. She gave love unconditionally and it was returned in kind.
Her friendships, whether forged fifty days ago or fifty years ago, were
lifetime commitments unbounded by common social restrictions. There were no
pretenses. What you saw was what you got. And it was beautiful.
A deep and abiding Christian faith sustained her while we had her here.
It continues to sustain her as He now holds her close.
April 1997