Donald Norman Finch is the father of Michael and Barney Finch. Born on June 18, 1914, in Mendenhall, MS, he was one of the five children by his parent's William Barney and Dora Howell Finch. Throughout his life he worked as a pipe-fitter around the city of Jackson, MS, assisted in the development of the Jackson Coliseum, and a recreational baseball coach for the city's youth. He died at the age of 49 on May 13, 1964.
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