July 9, 1926 – Dec. 24, 2023
Myrtle Levitch Finley died Sunday, Dec. 24, at age 97 after a lengthy battle with dementia. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the fifth of eight children of Sam and Lena Levitch. After graduating from Humes High School in 1944, she worked as a clerk at the Memphis Veterans Hospital. A first marriage brought her to Texas, where her two children, Donald and Janet, were born. In 1964, she returned to Memphis and became secretary to the chairman of surgery at the VA. To better provide for her children, she left again in 1968 for a job as an inventory management specialist at Kelly Air Force Base. There, she met and married Robert Finley, a widower with two grown children, Robert Jr. and Janet. Robert adopted her two children, and she became stepmother to his.
Except for a yearlong transfer to McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento in 1974, the couple spent the rest of their lives in San Antonio. After Robert’s death in 1996, Myrtle spent her days reading, babysitting, volunteering, and enjoying the company of family and friends. She was cared for by the staff of Imagine Wellness Assisted Living at the close of her life.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents, daughter Janet Fleming, and all seven of her siblings, Harry Levitch, Arthur Levitch, Etta Miner, Mark Levitch, Sylvia Lansky, Jean Levitch and Shirley Kaplan. She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Robert and Barbara Finley, and Donald Finley and Gloria Padilla, all of San Antonio; daughter Janet Berry of Little Rock, eight grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren.
Services will be Friday, December 29th at Roy Akers Funeral Home at 10:00am, with burial to follow at Sunset Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the American Cancer Society, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital and the Alzheimer’s Association..
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