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Laura Frances "Fanny" Shipe Finch, born in 1866 in Woodstock, Virginia, and educated in Texas, taught at McKinney's Collegiate Institute before marrying Henry A. Finch in 1890. Henry Finch later served as a Texas legislator and mayor of the city, and the couple had seven children. In 1917, Fanny Finch became one of the state's first women to serve on a school board. She also helped found the Owl Literary Club and the city's first Garden Club, and she and her husband donated sites for a park and a college. The school was named in her honor in 1924.
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McKinney, Texas · United States
