Sussex-Surry-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Devany, Dr. Walter L., 1931 

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DR. WALTER LESLIE DEVANY 

FUNERAL FOR DR. W.L. DEVANY 

  WAKEFIELD - Jan. 10 - Wakefield Methodist Church was packed to over-flowing 
Wednesday at funeral services for Dr. W.L. Devany, widely popular Surry County 
physician, who died at his home in Dendron Tuesday after a long illness.  The 
services were conducted at 3 o’clock in the afternoon by the Rev. William 
Boggs, pastor of Wakefield Methodist Church and the Rev. William Brayshaw, 
pastor of Smithfield Methodist Church.  The church choir sang "Just As I Am" 
and "Abide With Me."  The floral offerings were unusually numerous and 
beautiful.  Burial was in Wakefield Cemetery.  Active pallbearers were R.A. 
Savedge, Carlton Holliday, Ralph James, J.S. White, Crawley Maynard and Walter 
H. Rogers.  Honorary pallbearers, some forty in number, included county 
officials, friends and associates of Dr. Devany in his nearly fifty years in 
the practice of medicine and surgery in Surry County.


Dr. Walter Leslie DEVANY, retired physician, 
b. 15 Oct 1858, Southampton Co., d. 6 Jan 1931, at home, Dendron, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 7 Jan 1931, 
"Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Jan. 11, 1931, p. 6 

*His sister Frances R. (DEVANY; Mrs. Samuel J.) DREWRY, is 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 

Their father, James Henry DEVANEY (1830-1910), has been added to  
   the DEVANY-YATES family cemetery, near Courtland. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 8 (VIII-61): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol8.txt 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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