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Huddleston was also the father of Leon Finney Sr. (1916–2008), the founder of the popular Leon's Bar-B-Q chain in Chicago, who in turn was the father of Leon Finney Jr. (1938–2020), a prominent Chicago minister and president and CEO of the Woodlawn Organization. The Chicago and Mississippi branches of the family retain political ties.
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Finneytown is home to the second largest private school in Ohio (St. Xavier High School) and the Cincinnati area's annual Greek Festival (at Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church). [4] Finneytown is named for Ebenezer Ward Finney, a Revolutionary War soldier whose burial site is located just south of the current township. [5]
Leon Finney, who was born in Mississippi in 1916. His father was T. J. Huddleston Sr., a prominent funeral home owner. [1] His son, Leon Finney Jr. was born in 1938. [2] He moved to Chicago in 1940 to escape the racist environment of the South.
Headquarters. Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans).
Anderson, who was a member of the Ohio Funeral Directors Association, [1] moved to Columbus where she began an apprenticeship at the Shaw Davis Funeral Home. [16] [17] At the time of her murder, Anderson was nearing the end of that apprenticeship, and, according to the funeral home’s manager, was going to be offered a job. [18]
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Mary Hanford Finney was born on November 1, 1856, [1] [2] (though 1857 is often mentioned,) [3] [4] to a mercantile/banker family [5] [6] near Meadville, Pennsylvania. The family was noted a year later in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. [7] The Kansas City Times obituary noted she had a brother, A.M. Finney, known from Charleston, West Virginia. [7]