Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Roy E. GAVEY

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> June 2005

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ROY E. GAVEY

Roy E. Gavey died at 5 p.m. Sunday at Mercy hospital in Janesville at the
age of 49. He had been ill since the first of the year, and had been in the
hospital the past three and one-half weeks, dying from a complication of
disease.

Deceased was born in Orfordville, Dec. 18, 1874, and had lived in
Evansville the past 13 years, working at his trade as a carpenter. Sixteen
years ago he married Miss Rose Guttenberg, Jefferson, who survives,
together with seven children: Alfred, Lillian, Elizabeth, Marjorie,
Rosemary, Ruth and daughter by a former marriage, Mrs. Marion Marsh,
Madison.

He was a member of the Catholic church, Woodmen of the World and the
volunteer fire company.

Funeral services were held Tuesdy at St. Paul's Catholic church, Rev.
McDermott officiating, interment being in the Orfordville cemetery.

CARD OF THANKS

We take this manner of expressing our sincere thanks to the friends and
neighbors who so kindly assisted us during the sickness and death of our
beloved husband and father, Roy E. Gavey, by their kind words of sympathy
and kindly acts. Especially do we wish to thank the Firemen and all those
who so kindly contributed flowers and cars.

Mrs. Gavey and children.

April 10, 1924, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin