Native Texan Pearl Lilley
Fincher was born in 1935. She grew up as one of 11 kids to a Baptist preacher
and a homemaker in Splendora, TX. They were extremely poor with most of
her siblings and their families staying in the cycle of poverty. Pearl
wanted more. When she and her husband met and married, between the two of
them they had $60 in the bank and working 2 jobs each. Together they
started with a single used automobile business, Fred Fincher Motors
in 1959. At the time of Pearl’s husband’s death in 1996, they had 15
automotive related business operated by their 9 children.
