Sussex County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Devany, Dorothy V., 1974 

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DOROTHY VIRGINIA DEVANY 

DOROTHY DEVANY, 72, WAS FRENCH TEACHER 

  NORFOLK, VA. - Dorothy Virginia Devany of 1342 Westover Ave., a teacher in 
Teaneck, N.J., for 27 years, died Thursday in Norfolk Hospital of injuries 
received when she was hit by a truck in front of her home the previous day. 
Miss Devany, 72, had been a resident here since 1965.

  Miss Devany, who was a graduate of St. Genevieve College and Columbia 
University Teacher College, taught French at Teaneck High School from 1938 
until retiring in 1965.  She also had taught at other schools in New Jersey.

  She sponsored the French Club at Teaneck High School and was active in the 
Teaneck College Club.

  Miss Devany had worked part time as a tour director for Brownell Tours. 
She did much traveling in Europe.  She had done graduate work at the Serbonne 
in Paris.

  She had been a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Teaneck and recently had 
been president of the women’s auxiliary of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 
Norfolk.

  Among her survivors are two nephews, four nieces, and 14 grand-nephews and 
grand-nieces.  A nephew, Edward Heath Devany, lives in Teaneck.

  Services and burial were Saturday in Wakefield, Va.


Dorothy Virginia DEVANY, of Norfolk, French teacher, 
b. 11 Mar 1901, Wakefield, d. 7 Mar 1974, Norfolk, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 9 Mar 1974, 
"The Record" (Hackensack, NJ), Mar. 12, 1974, p. 47 

*Her parents are also buried there.  Wakefield list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 


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