Finger Family Genealogical DatabaseLast Update 01/22/2020

Richard “Rick” Finger, 64 of Corinth, Texas died on May 29, 2014. He was born June 26th 1949 in Canandaigua, New York and adopted by Dr. Charles J. & E. Alice Bobeck. Shortly after Rick’s mother Alice passed, his wife Mary located his biological parents (Earl and Virginia Finger) living in Penn Yan, New York in October of 1980.

Rick is survived by his wife Mary of 40 years; his oldest child, Richard Carr (from a previous marriage) of Fort Worth TX, followed by Alicia Harding of Hickory Creek, TX and Michael Hernandez of Denton, TX. He had seven grandchildren; Tyler, Denise, and Ariana Hernandez, Lauryn & Brendan Harding, and Tanner & Peri Carr. His sisters Nancy Hackert, Donna Hamm and Virginia Stape also survive him. His sister Betty Maio and brother Donald Payne preceded him.

Rick remarried on Nov. 30, 1973 to Mary Hernandez with a small gathering of friends and relatives in the prayer room at Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California. They later renewed their wedding vows in the same prayer room on their 25th Anniversary. Mary was the love of his life for 40 years of marriage and would always introduce her as the “brains of the outfit” and “my bride.”

Rick managed and/or coached nearly 30 baseball teams over 12 years of Little League, Park League and Pony/Colt baseball and “assisted” his wife in coaching their daughter’s softball teams. He also loved playing men’s fast pitch and slow pitch softball in both New York and California for many years before injuries took over and was a manager/player on some of those teams. As a child Rick would admit he was a Yankee fan, but after he grew up he became a Red Sox fan. His dream to travel to Fenway Park for a Red Sox/Yankee game was fulfilled in September 2007, with his youngest son Michael.

Rick held jobs in Farm Labor at a Christian Commune, the Hospital Industry, Construction, Law Enforcement, Aircraft Manufacturing and 30 years in the Aerospace Industry as a Purchasing Agent/Major Subcontracts Administrator, receiving numerous awards and recognitions.

Rick had a good sense of humor, having a well-known reputation as a practical joker. He carried this sense of humor through his cancer battles with all the medical staff he encountered and it pleased him to make people step outside the seriousness of life-threatening diseases and find the lighter side of life and see folks smile through it all.

When Rick and Mary relocated to Texas in 2005, he often pointed out that, although they weren’t born in Texas, they got here as fast as they could and regretted that Mary and he didn’t see all of Texas they wanted. Everyone who knew Rick knows how organized he was and even took the time to write this obituary himself.