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James Murdoch Finlayson
WEST COLUMBIA — A graveside service for James Murdoch Finlayson, 96, of Still Hopes Retirement Community, will be held Thursday at 11:00 a.m. in Old St. David’s Cemetery, Cheraw, S.C., conducted by Rev. Edward Laney Davidson. Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, is assisting the family.
Mr. Finlayson died Tuesday, June 17, 2008, in Providence Hospital. Born in Cheraw, November 4, 1911, he was a son of the late Burruss and Jennie Wait Foster Finlayson. After graduation from Cheraw High School, he entered the University of South Carolina, graduating in 1935 from the School of Commerce. During the depth of the Depression, he held several jobs throughout the Columbia area. Among these was one as an amending clerk in the Senate. All of these aided in his school expenses. Between his USC graduation and the start of WW II, Finlayson worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority. He served as a warrant officer with the U.S. Navy during the war and was a member of its amphibious forces and their headquarters operations along the North African shores in 1943. Later, these headquarters and operations moved to England’s shores for the D-Day landings at Normandy, June 6, 1944. Mr. Finlayson was a lifelong member of First United Methodist Church, Cheraw.
Mr. Finlayson is survived by a sister, Jennie Llew (Mrs. Clarence Lee Guyton); a brother, Patillo Ainsworth Finlayson; niece, Beverly Finlayson Triber of Columbia; great-nephews, Philip Triber of Columbia and Charles Wofford Triber of Ashville, N.C.; sister-in-law, Mrs. H. Westbrook Finlayson, Sr.; and many nieces and nephews in Gadsden, Ala. He was predeceased by two sisters, Rutha Wait (Mrs. Ernest Dyal) and Florence Foster Finlayson; two brothers, B. Wofford Finlayson and Henry Westbrook Finlayson.

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June 18, 2008