OBITUARY: Ralph E. Davey, Worth County, Iowa



                             Ralph E. Davey

[The Northwood Anchor online - Posted August 06, 2002 ]

Ralph E. Davey, 82, of Manly, died Saturday, Aug. 3, 2002, at the Muse-Norris
Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

A funeral mass was held Wednesday at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in
Manly, with Rev. David Kucera officiating.  Burial was in the Sacred Heart
Catholic Cemetery in Manly.  

Ralph E. Davey was born on Oct. 8, 1919, in Clarion, the son of Frank and
Eleanora (Bednar) Davey.  He attended and received his education in the
Manly School system, graduating from Manly High School in 1938.  After
completing his schooling he began working at the Kraus Department Store
in Manly, and also worked for A & P Grocery store in Mason City.  He married
Ann Barnish on Oct. 24, 1940, in Northwood.  After their marriage they moved
to Waterloo in 1942, where Ralph worked for Montgomery Ward Store and he
also worked for Rath Meat Packing Company before moving back to Manly
where he worked as a conductor for the Rock Island Railroad for 39 years
before his retirement in 1979.  After his retirement he worked for
Pinkerton Security in Mason City for several years.  

He enjoyed gardening, picking raspberries, fishing, hunting, playing cards
with the senior citizens in Plymouth, and was an avid Hawkeye football and
basketball fan, but his great love and enjoyment was his family and
grandchildren.

He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Manly, Plymouth Senior
Citizens, was the secretary of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and a
UTU Teamsters member.

Left to cherish his memory is his wife, Ann Davey of Manly; two sons, Jim
Davey and his wife Melanie Stancil of Knightdale, NC, and Ralph Davey and
his wife Joan of Manly; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; one
brother, William Davey and his wife Corrine of Gadsden, Alabama; as well
as other relatives and many friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a daughter, Sharon Davey who died
in infancy and a baby brother.



Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: Not necessarily related to the subject of this obituary.)

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