When Glen Vincel Finch was born on 13 September 1938, in Stanley, Buchanan, Iowa, United States, his father, James Vincel Finch, was 23 and his mother, Clarace Catheryn Ferguson, was 17. He lived in Byron Township, Buchanan, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 11 July 2007, at the age of 68, and was buried in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
English: nickname from Middle English finch, fink ‘finch’ (Old English finc), for a small, lively, cheerful person.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), Czech, Slovenian, and Croatian Fink ‘finch’, or of some of the corresponding Slavic surnames, e.g. Czech (Moravian) Pěnka (see Penka ).
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