Eben Dickey Finney Jr. ’46

Eben D. "Pete" Finney died Sept. 27, 1999, of cancer at his home in Lutherville, Md.

Born in Midland, Tex., son of E. D. Finney 'l 9, Pete grew up on Good Fellowship Farm near Baltimore, graduated from the Gilman School, and entered Princeton in 1942. He served in the Naval Air Corps in Pensacola, from I 943- 45, and returned to Princeton in 1947, graduating in 1948. He worked for 17 years in the corrugated box business for Wabash Manufacturing Co. and Greenwood Engineering Co., and learned accounting and then mechanical engineering at night school. He started Fiberglass Specialties in 1956, where he developed several patents. In 1968, he joined Rouse Co. in real estate development, becoming an independent developer from 1973 until he retired in 1980. He enjoyed raising springer spaniels.

Pete married Georgianna Bailliere in 1956; she died in 1993. Their children, who survive, are Eben III, Marian, and Thomas. He also has a brother, D. C. Wharton Finney '47, and two '46 cousins, John M.T. Finney III, and William H.M. Finney. The class joins the family in mourning an accomplished professional, loving father, and loyal Princetonian.