Rachel Dyer Finch passed away on Christmas Eve, 2012 in Framingham, MA, after a long battle with the after effects of a stroke suffered ten years earlier. She was 88 years old.

Mrs. Finch was born in Newbern. She was the fifth of five daughters born to Walter and Marjorie Dyer. She was raised in the Roellen area and graduated from Dyersburg High School.

Mrs. Finch was the secretary to the Superintendent of the Dyersburg City Schools for over twenty years. She and her husband, George Finch, were lifetime residents of Dyersburg and long time members of the First Assembly of God Church, where she taught Sunday School for many years.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 59 years, George D. Finch.

Graveside memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Fairview Cemetery. Dyersburg Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

The family will receive visitors from 10-10:45 a.m. Saturday at Dyersburg Funeral Home.

Mrs. Finch is survived by her son, Bill Finch and his wife, Katherine, of Wayland, MA; and two grandchildren, Patrick Finch of Brooklyn, NY and Travis Finch of Waltham, MA.

The family requests that memorials be directed to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.