Karl Mins Finger, 85, of Monterey, passed away peacefully at Fairview Commons in Great Barrington on Wednesday, January 1, 2025. He was born in New York City on November 10, 1939, to Sophie “Suds” Evelyn Mins Finger and Raphael “Phil” Montague Finger.
As a child and in high school, while living in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., he attended Camp Woodland in upstate New York, where he met Pete Seeger and began a lifelong passion for music and social justice.
After high school, Karl went to the University of Chicago, where he played tennis on the varsity team and received a Bachelor of Science in Biological Science. Karl also completed two years of graduate study at the Columbia University School of General Studies.
In the 1960s, Karl was briefly married to Judith Friedman (née Judith Irene Kaplan)…