Mamie Lee Finger

Asheville, NC - Mamie Lee Ratliff Finger, a resident of Givens Estates, died Monday, February 13, 2006. Born in Sherard, Mississippi, January 26, 1918, she was the daughter of the late Cora Rodman Ratliff and William Hardy Ratliff. In 1942 she married Homer Ellis Finger, Jr., now a retired Bishop with the United Methodist Church. She was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga. and received an Honorary Doctor of Literature Degree from Ewha Women?s University in Seoul, Korea. She was a member of Central United Methodist Church in Asheville, Chair of the International Foundation for Ewha Women?s University in Seoul, Korea; a participant in Women?s History Research at the national level and was active in United Methodist Community Services in Nashville and Knoxville, Tenn. Mrs. Finger is survived by her spouse of 64 years, Bishop Homer Ellis Finger, Jr.; two sons, Homer Ellis Finger, III, and his wife Phyllis, of Easton, Penn., William Ratliff Finger, and his wife Georgia, of Raleigh, NC; one daughter, Elizabeth Ellen Finger, and her husband Richard VanderVeen, of Arden and five grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday in the Performing Arts Center of Oxford Commons at Givens Estates. Memorial gifts may be directed to Givens Estates, Sweeten Creek Road, Asheville, NC 28803 or to the lake Junaluska Assembly Foundation, Lake Junaluska, NC 28745.