Brief Life Sketch

George is Angie’s father.

“As a boy I learned a great lesson of faith and sacrifice from my grandfather. The taxes on the farm were delinquent, and Grandfather, like so many, had no money. There was a drought in the land, and some cows and horses were dying for lack of grass and hay. One day when we were harvesting what little hay there was in the field, Grandfather told us to take the wagon to the corner of the field where the best hay stood and fill the wagon as full as we could and take it to the tithing yard as payment of his tithing in kind. I wondered how Grandfather could use the hay to pay tithing when some of the cows that we were depending upon to sustain us might starve. I marveled at his great faith that somehow the Lord would provide.

The legacy of faith he passed on to his posterity was far greater than money, because he established in the minds of his children and grandchildren that above all he loved the Lord and His holy work over other earthly things. He never became wealthy, but he died at peace with the Lord and with himself. “

written by James E. Faust

George Edward Finlinson

Brief Life Sketch