Newsday (New York) (Nassau and Suffolk Edition), May 19, 2006, Friday

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Newsday (New York)

May 19, 2006 Friday
NASSAU AND SUFFOLK EDITION

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A59

HEADLINE: PAID DEATH NOTICES


FINKE-Colonel Daniel Leon, Jr., U.S. Army Retired Reserve, 76, of Centereach, LI, New York, died Monday, May 15, 2006 with his wife, Barbara by his side. Born in Brooklyn, New York, November 25, 1929, the son of Katherine and Daniel L. Finke, Col. Finke served in the NY National Guard & U.S. Army Reserves achieving distinctions with the Meritorious Service Award, the 245th Artillery NIKE-Ajax Missile Award and the MEDDAC Crest. Finke held various executive positions with the Suffolk County Dept. of Labor, Dept. of Health & the Northport VA Hospital. He also served as a District Councilman. He graduated The Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations and The U.S. Army Command & General Staff College. Survivors include his wife of 49 years, the former Barbara Jeanne Wilson; his three children, son, Daniel & his wife Maureen; daughter Paris Helene and husband Roger Loesch and grandchildren, Roger Jr., Carter, Julia Wilson, Daniel III, Christian and Valerie Jeanne. He is also predeceased by his son Christian Brett. Services at O.B. Davis Funeral Home on Saturday 5/20 47:30PM, Sunday 2-4PM and 68PM. Mass Monday 5/22 9:45AM at Assumption BVM Church in Centereach, burial following at Calverton National Cemetery.