| Robert E. Devereaux
Brief mention was made last week of the death of Robert E.
Devereaux which occurred in Omaha Tuesday, February 15 at the home of
his sister, Mrs. J. D. Conway. Mr. Devereaux's death followed a long
illness, which became serious last summer. The body was brought to the
Hilliard Funeral home in Corning. Services were conducted by the Rev.
Father M. J. Powers from St. Patrick's Catholic church Thursday morning.
Burial was made in the Calvary cemetery.
Robert E. Devereaux, son of the late William and Anna Devereaux
was born in Villisca, Iowa, January 29, 1879, and died February 15,
1938, aged 59 years and 17 days. Mr. Devereaux had lived in this
community since 1880, when the family moved here from Montgomery county.
For 14 years he taught school, in the county and for a short time in
Nebraska. Of late years he had been associated with his brother John, in
the gravel industry north of Corning. He had gone to the home of his
sister, when his illness became acute, where he had been tenderly cared for.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Anna Devereaux of Corning; his
brothers and sisters, W. P. Devereaux of Pittsburg, California; Mrs. G.
D. Conway, Joe, Mrs. Raymond Maun and Helen of Omaha; and John of
Corning; also many nieces and nephews all of whom grieve because of the
loss of a kindly sympathetic relative and friend. He was a man who made
and kept his friends and many such join the family in their sorrow, and
will long remember Mr. Devereaux as a friendly, neighborly man whom they
could always call "Friend."
(Adams County Free Press, Thursday, February 24, 1938) |
