Mrs.
Finley A Victim To The Bullet Fired By Son In Her Defense Last May
When He Killed His Father At Goodman Point Ranch
The bullet from the high-powered rifle which Virgil Finley fired at his
father, Curtis Finley, on the night of May 22, this year, killing him and
seriously wounding his mother after it passed through his body, claimed
its second victim Tuesday evening when Mrs. Cora Finley died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Edwin Wilson at Yellow Jacket.
Since the tragedy of that night when the son had to sieze a gun in defense
of his mother the bullet has been lodged in Mrs. Finley's brain just above
her left eye. An operation was considered necessary at first but was given
up because surgeons believed that its removal would have caused her
instant death. The pressure of the bullet is believed responsible for Mrs.
Finley's unconsciousness for a week or more preceding her death.
The son, Virgil, secretly married Miss Dorothy Haywood, Four Square
evangelist of this place, on July 8, at Durango. News of the marriage was
made known Monday when the couple left for California.
Funeral services are being held this afternoon from the Ertel Mortuaries
chapel and interment was a the Arriola cemetery. Rev. Robert Lynn
conducted the services.
Mrs. Finley is survived by her daughters: Mrs. C. W. Rice of Cortez, Mrs.
Edwin Wilson of Yellow Jacket, Mrs. Elsie Sellars of Princeton, Kan., Mrs.
Bessie Koci of Auburn, Kan., and by her son, Virgil.
Cortez Journal-Herald, Cortez, Montezuma County, Colorado, Thursday,
August 6, 1931
