[bristol-birds] Re: Thomas W. Finucane Obit

  • From: "Marion Finucane" <marion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 00:06:37 -0400

There will be a wake at Hamlet-Dobson funeral home this Tuesday night and
the funeral service will be Wednesday at four p.m. at St. Dominic's Church
in Kingsport. Although I've visited him daily, I was out birding today with
my brother Joe and his wife at Sycamore Shoals when he died.  I think he
would be glad of that.  We spyed a Eastern Kingbird nest. My father manned
Mendota for more than twenty years-was the first person to collect data
there, I think. Fred Baron took him up there the first time.  There used to
be a photo of the two of them on Mendota.  My feeling is that he lived a
long and really fun life, chocked full of lots of interests- I've been
pleased to help him out in his later years.

Marion Finucane
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Subject: [bristol-birds] Thomas W. Finucane Obit



Thomas W. Finucane, a long-time bird researcher in
Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, died
this morning (5/26) at Kingsport, Tennessee.

In 1955 he volunteered to assemble hawk migration
reports to be published in THE MIGRANT and
continued to do that for more than 20 years.

He was a long-time hawk migration observer at
the famous Mendota Fire Tower along the Clinch
Mountain range west of Bristol.  There he made
more than 100 climbs to the tower to count hawks,
keep detailed records and publish his data.

He was a former state officer of the Tennessee
Ornithological Society, a long-time member and
leader of the Kingsport Chapter of TOS and, for
many years, a member of the Hawk Migration
Association of North America.

He was a frenquent participant at many state
TOS meetings and, for decades, was one of the
society's prominent leaders.

He conducted many Breeding Bird Surveys in
Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia as well
as other nearby states.  His contributions date
to the beginning of the surveys in the 1960s.

Tom was frequently involved in Christmas Bird
Counts and was a compiler and leader of numerous
Kingsport counts.

He had been one of the oldest participants in
distance running road races in the region and
constantly won in the oldest age classes.
He was a champion chess player and a long-time
soccer player and Kingsport soccer team coach.

Tom was a retired research chemist of the
Tennessee Eastman Company at Kingsport.
He moved to Northeast Tennessee from New York
to work at the chemical company and first lived
at Blountville befor moving to Kingsport.

He joined the Tennessee Ornithological Society
in 1945.

He is survived by his wife, Charlotte, and several
children  One of his daughter's is Marion Finucane who
is a member of the Bristol Bird Club.

Tom had been in failing health for several years and
was living at a Kingsport nursing home at the time
of his death.

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN






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This is a regional birding list sponsored by the
Bristol Bird Club to facilitate communications 
between birders and bird clubs of Southwest Virginia
and Northeast Tennessee.  It serves the Russell County
Bird Club, Herndon Chapter TOS, Greeneville TOS 
Chapter, Blue Ridge Birders Club, Butternut Nature
Club, Buchanan County Bird Club, Bristol Bird Club,
Clinch Valley Bird Club and Cumberland Nature Club.
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