Katherine Finley

By ANGIE CIPPONERI/Missourian

December 22, 2008 | 5:30 p.m. CST

Katherine Finley was born in 1919 in Bosworth. While posing for a portrait in her Columbia apartment, she shared memories of holidays during the Great Depression. She said her most memorable Christmas involved her grandfather's makeshift "fairy Christmas tree" covered in homemade tinsel.

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