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FINKE, Paul Robert "Pop"
Age 101, passed away peacefully Thursday, March 25, 2021, surrounded by his loving family. Paul spent the first 86 years of his life in Dayton and his last 15 years in Davidson, NC, to be with family. He was born March 12, 1920, in Dayton, Ohio. Paul is a graduate of Chaminade High School and the University of Dayton. He served in the Army Air Corp during WWII as a 2nd Lieutenant in command of the 1830th Ordnance Supply & 327th Aviation Service Group. Paul was the owner and operator of the Finke Company along with his 3 brothers. He married the love of his life Rita Duncavage on April 15th, 1950. Pop was an extremely charitable person
giving to numerous organizations. His passions included spending time with his family, attending St. Albert the Great and St. Mark Catholic churches, UD Basketball, and golfing at Walnut Grove & Northstone country clubs. One of his favorite guilty pleasures was eating his goddaughter Nancy's lemon
meringue pie.
He is preceded in death by his wife Rita; sister, Virginia Zahn; brothers, Herbert & James Finke. He is survived by his brother Tom (Betty) Finke; son Paul (Julie) Finke; daughters, Carol (Gary) Packer, Teresa Schindelholz, Gayle (John) Dieckhoff, and Mary (Ronald) Siegrist. Pop is also survived by 11 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren; Dr. John (Samantha) Dieckhoff Jr.; their children, Henry & Charles; Brian Dieckhoff, Jennifer Dieckhoff, Gary Packer Jr., Joe (Trista) Packer, Matt Schindelholz, Laura Schindelholz, her children Grace & Belle, Emily Siegrist, Paul Finke, Adam Finke, Sarah Finke and many other relatives and friends.
Mass of Christian burial will be at 10:00 a.m. at St. Albert the Great Church, Wednesday, April 7th. Visitation will be in the church before the service from 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Burial to
follow at Calvary Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers please send donations to Help Heal Veterans. www.healvets.org
Arrangements in care of Westbrock Funeral Home
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Bill Zahn & Family
April 6, 2021
The Bill Zahn family morns the loss of Uncle Paul / Great Uncle Paul / Great-Great Uncle Paul. We provide our sympathy and prayers to the many who loved him.
We will remember Uncle Paul as an incredibly humorous, caring, and loving person who enjoyed a full life and blessed all who knew him with fond memories. We celebrate Uncle Paul’s tremendous life and christen his joyous follow-on voyage.
Mark Duffy
April 5, 2021
Our Duffy family goes back a very long way with the Finke family in Dayton. William and Marty Duffy were schoolmates of Paul and Rita and close, close friends within “The Group”, consisting of the Smiths, the Siewes, the Butlers, the Dahms and others. Picnics at Walnut Grove, New Years Eves at the Biltmore Hotel downtown, bowling and bridge. We were pretty young but we all have at least some great memories from those days. Much more recently, we had the pleasure to re-aquaint with Paul as he provided some much appreciated companionship, fun and caring with Marty. He was a wonderful man, a lot of fun to be around. We will miss those days.
Our sympathies to all the family.
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