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Obituary -- The Des Moines Register, January 24, 1978

The Des Moines Register; January 24, 1978

Minnie Druse, Iowa's oldest resident died Sunday afternoon at the age of 110. She was born July 21, 1867. Family members said they were told by officials of the Methodist Church that she was also the oldest living member of the church In the United States. Mrs. Druse's life began on a Missouri farm, near Kahoka almost due west of Keokuk, where she was raised with her two brothers and three sisters. For the next 110 years, Mrs. Druse followed a rather typical lifestyle for a girl born into a an Emmet County settlement of 1,060 persons. In 1904, at the age of 37, she married a longtime sweetheart, Warren Druse.

At the time of her death, Minnie was reported to be the seventh oldest person in the United States and the tenth oldest person in the world.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE - Times Republican, Marshalltown; Thursday, July 17, 1969 (Find-A-Grave)

MRS. MINNIE DRUSE EYES 102 YEAR

NEVADA - (Special) - Mrs. Minnie Druse was honored Sunday for her 102nd birthday which is next Monday. She makes her home at Harrison Haven.

Her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Lura and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Harrison hosted the party. Friends came from Des Moines and Indianola.

Harriet was not married until she was at least 37 years old. This was Henry's second marriage. Henry and Harriet did not have any children of their own, however, two of Henry's children from his previous marriage lived with the family for many years.

There is some confusion regarding Henry's children. In the 1900 Census Henry is shown with his first wife and two children: Leona (age 5) and Gerald (age 3). In the 1910 Census Henry is a widower with two children: Leona (age 14) and Gerald (age 13). In the 1920 Census Henry is shown with second wife Harriet and two children: Gerald (age 22) and Mildred M. (age 19). I am assuming, for the time being, that Mildred was the daughter of one of Henry's relatives and that she may have been adopted.

Gerald was the informant on his father's death certificate. He died in 1976.

no chldren.

Harriet was not married until she was at least 37 years old. This was Henry's second marriage. Henry and Harriet did not have any children of their own, however, two of Henry's children from his previous marriage lived with the family for many years.

There is some confusion regarding Henry's children. In the 1900 Census Henry is shown with his first wife and two children: Leona (age 5) and Gerald (age 3). In the 1910 Census Henry is a widower with two children: Leona (age 14) and Gerald (age 13). In the 1920 Census Henry is shown with second wife Harriet and two children: Gerald (age 22) and Mildred M. (age 19). I am assuming, for the time being, that Mildred was the daughter of one of Henry's relatives and that she may have been adopted.

Gerald was the informant on his father's death certificate. He died in 1976.

no chldren.

Daughters of the American Revolution; Volume 125, page 60

Mrs. Bertha Davalt Roberts

DAR ID Number: 124197

Born in Clark County, Missouri

Wife of Lewis Dillon Roberts.

Descendant of Capt. John Coffeen and Michael Coffeen, as follows:

1. Samuel Davault (B. 1836) M. 1861 Mariam Maria Coffeen (b. 1842).

2. Joseph Richardson Coffeen (1810-86) m. 1839 Mariam Buckler Payton (1814-77).

3. John Coffeen (1784-1821) m. 1809 Diadama Richardson (1790-1866)

4. Michael Coffeen m 1778 Sarah Preston.

5. John Coffeen M. 1751 Susanna Goldsmith

John Coffeen (1729 - 1802) commanded a company of Vermont rangers to prevent the British from invading Vermont and New York. In 1777, was a member of the convention. He was born in Topsfield, Mass.; died in Cavendish, VT.

Michael Coffeen served as a private in Captain Abel Wilder's company, Col, Ephraim Doolittle's regiment, 1775. He was born in Massachusetts; died in Batavia, NY

Also #99917

Bertha was a state officer of the DAR while living in Colorado.

San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune; San Luis Obispo, California; Thursday, August 3, 1939; Page 6 (GenealogyBank.com)

U.S.C. Professor Commits Suicide

Los Angeles, Aug. 3. (UP) -- Professor Lewis D. Roberts, 60, member of the University of Southern California faculty, committed suicide by poison at his home today, police reported. A note left by Roberts said he loved his wife and regretted the necessity of ending his life, but explained he felt paralysis creeping upon him.

San Diego Union; San Diego, California; Friday, August 4, 1939; Page 3 (GenealogyBank.com)

U.S.C. Professor Found Dead; Suicide Indicated

LOS ANGELES, AUG. 3, (AP) -- Lewis D. Roberts, 60, Professor of physical chemistry at the University of Southern California, was found dead in his home today.

Police said he left a note saying he feared approaching paralysis and did not want to become a burden to his family. Dr. Paul A. Foster, his physician, told the officers he had apparently taken poison.

Obituary (from Tracy DeVault):

DEVALT FUNERAL IS

TO BE HELD SUNDAY

Aged Sayre Woman Dies at Home

Here Friday; Death Climaxes

Three-Week Illness

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Funeral services for Mrs. Alice Odessa Davalt, 214 North Eighth street, who succumbed Friday following a three-week illness, will be held at 2:30 Sunday afternoon from the Buffalo church, with Rev. Richard Montgomery pastor, officiating.

Mrs. Davalt succumbed at the age of 82 years and seven days. She was born on March 11, 1856 and had been a resident of Sayre since 1917.

She was a member of the Christian church, having been united with this congregation in her early youth.

She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. W. B. Farrar of Sandpoint, Idaho, Mrs. Mary Ross of Mission, Tex., Mrs. Howard Faris of Sayre and Mrs. Riley Grisham of Sayre; two sons, John of Sayre and Sam of Houston, two half sisters, Mrs. Emma Murdock of Laird, Colo, and one half brother, Fred Samples of Laird.

Interment will be made at the Buffalo cemetery by the Moore funeral home.

Most likely, Alice's birth surname was Smith, out-of-wedlock daughter of Mary, daughter of Levi and and Jane (Stroud) Smith of Van Buren County, Iowa. The following is Tracy DeVault's analysis:

"There have been a number of people that have tried to identify Alice's parents. One tree shows John Sample (no trailing "s") and Rachel Stark as possible parents. John married Rachel in 1842. They seem to have had six children. Rachel died in 1860. John married Mary Smith (daughter of Levi Smith and Jane Stroud) in 1862. They went on to have five children of their own. Alice's obituary says that two of John and Mary's children are her half-siblings. One might think that Alice was a daughter of John Sample and Rachel Stark, but wait, Alice, born in 1856, does not appear with John and Rachel in the 1860 Census nor does she appear with John and Mary in the 1870 Census. What does this all mean? It turns out that an Alice, born about 1855, shows up in the 1860 Census with the family of Levi and Jane (Stroud) Smith. Alice is clearly a misfit here. All of Levi and Jane's children were born in Pennsylvania, Alice was born in Iowa. Also, it appears from the census, that the next older child is 14 years older than Alice. Finally, also shown in the 1860 Census record for the Levi Smith family is Mary Smith, age 27. In the 1870 Census, Mary Smith is now married to John Sample and they have four children of their own. Alice Smith is still shown living with the Levi Smith family. So here is what I think happened. Alice was an out-of-wedlock child born to Mary Smith. When Mary married John Sample, Alice remained with her grandparents. Eventually, Alice adopted her mother's married name with an added trailing "s"."

Obituaries:

John Davalt

Rites AT Elk

Tuesday, March 9

Services for John Davalt, route 4, Sayre, who died of a heart attack in Elk City Saturday noon, were held Tuesday, March 9, at the First Baptist church in Elk City at 2:30 p.m. with Reverend H. L. Janes and Rev Garland Wilson, Sayre officiating.

He filed on a farm in 1900 where he was residing at the time of his death. Mr. Davalt was born March 20, 1880 at Cantrell, Iowa. He was married January 1, 1905 at Sayre to Bessie Farrar.

Two children preceded him in death.

Mr. Davalt is survived by his wife and four children. Eddie of Elk City; Lee of Dighton, Kansas; Mrs. Georgia Fuchs, Elk City; Mrs. Lucille Hindman of Sayre; three sisters, Mrs. Em Farrar of Sandpoint, Idaho; Mrs Mamie Ross of Mission, Texas, Mrs Grace Grisham, Sayre; one brother, Sam of Houston, Texas, eleven grandchildren.

Burial was in the Sayre-Doxey Cemetery.

JOHN DEVALT

ELK CITY -- Services for John Davalt, Sayre, route 4, who died while visiting in Elk City Saturday, were in the local First Baptist church.

He was born March 20, 1880, in Cantrell, Iowa and came to Beckham county in 1900.

Survivors are his wife; two sons, Eddie of Elk City and Lee of Dighton, Kan.; two daughters, Mrs Georgia Fuchs of Elk City and Mrs. Lucille Hinkman of Sayre; three sisters, Mrs. Emma Farrar of Sandpoint, Idaho; Mrs Mamie Ross of Mission, Texas, and Mrs. Grace Grishom of Sayre; a brother, Sam Davalt of Houston, and 11 grandchildren.

John DeVault

Drops Dead In

Local Cafe

John DeVault of the DeVault Machine Shop, 211 West Sixth, dropped dead while eating dinner at a local cafe at 12:15 on Saturday.

It was reported that he had taken only one bite when he fell into the arms of his son, Eddie DeVault, who was with his father at the time that the heart attack struck him.

DeVault was 68 years of age. He is said to have had an attack on Friday night, but it was thought that it was not serious.

He is survived by his widow and four children.

Funeral arrangements, which are pending, are being made by Martin-Hullum Funeral home.

JOHN DAVALT FAMILY MEMORIES BY GEORGIE DAVALT FUCHS (provided by Tracy DeVault):

About the year of 1895, Jacob Davalt, with sons Sam and John, walked to Pueblo, Colorado from Keokuk, Iowa, a distance of about 100 miles. Jacob worked as a blacksmith and the boys worked down in the gold mines. They did not like that work so they walked back to Keokuk.

In 1898, John and Jesse McCoy, cousins, walked 550 miles from Keokuk to Oklahoma. They saw the beautiful grass and walked back to Iowa. They persuaded Jacob and others to form a wagon train to come to Oklahoma.

The members of the wagon train were Jacob and Alice Odessa Davalt, daughters Em, Ada and Maymie and sons Sam and John; Jess McCoy, who was the son of Rachel Davalt McCoy, sister to Jacob Davalt; Frank Stump, son of Elizabeth Davalt Stump, sister to Jacob Davalt; Frank Redburn and his first wife; Burt Redburn and wife and daughter; Maggie Wolf and her family (Maggie Wolf married Frank Redburn after his first wife died and reared his only daughter. Frank and Maggie owned and operated a jewelry store in Elk City for many years); Frink Hite and his family and his brother, first name unknown.

The wagon train left Wyaconda, Missouri in the spring of 1899. The train arrived in Enid, Oklahoma in December 1900. They spent December, January and February in Enid. The train left for Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Territory in March 1900.

Grace Davalt was born on Christmas day, 1900 so Alice Odessa stayed in Enid with her three daughters, Ada, Maymie and baby Grace. Later, they rode the train to Granite where Jacob met them.

The wagon box was 4 feet wide and 8 feet long and usually pulled by two houses. John Davalt brought one cow and one dog from Missouri.

When the wagon train was camped near what is now Hammon, Oklahoma, the Indians came and wanted the dog; but John persuaded them to take his offering of tobacco instead. The Indians agreed, leaving the dog with John.

After John built his small house and his sister Em lived with him, he would sometimes hitch the horses to the wagon to go to Buffalo to visit his parents. The cow would not stay home -- she had followed that wagon from Missouri and thought she should follow every time the horses were hitched.

John Davalt was issued Homestead Certificate no. 1465, under Application 18225 for lots one and two of section five, in township ten north of range twenty-two west of the Indian Meridian, containing seventy-nine and eighty-hundredths acres on January 16, 1908, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second; signed by M. W. Young, Secretary, for Theodore Roosevelt, President. The certificate is recorded in the Beckham County, Oklahoma records in Volume 713, page 40. Jim Davalt has possession of the original copy and has given me a xerox copy.

John Davalt was entitled to 80 acres because he was a single man, but he had to prove his claim -- build a house and occupy that house a certain number of days per month. While he helped build the Rock Island Railroad from Weatherford to Sayre in 1901, he continued his claim. The railroad went on to Tucumcari, New Mexico which was the end of the line from Memphis, Tennessee, but John did not go on west.

While building the railroad from Weatherford to Quannah in 1902 to 1903, John worked with the horses and fresno (a scoop with wheels). He would walk home for the weekend to maintain homestead rights. During the week, Em lived at Buffalo with her parents, but when John was coming home for the weekend, she would ride her horse the 15 miles to John's house near Doxey. When he left to go back toward Quannah to work, she would ride the 15 miles back to Buffalo.

Beatrice and Estella Moler were friends to Em and Maymie and spent many nights giggling as young girls often do. Later, John Davalt dated Beatrice Moler. Beatrice married August Fuchs on October 22, 1902. Their first son was named Edgar Augustus Fuchs. John married Bessie Chloe Farrar on January 1, 1905. Their first daughter was Georgie Ellen Davalt. Bessie had dated George Wingo before her marriage to John and when 12 pound "Georgie" was born, John did not approve of her name, but "Georgie" she is. Edgar Fuchs and Georgie Davalt were married January 14, 1929.

Dr. Windle delivered Georgie, Luciel and Lee, all at home. Eddie was delivered by Dr. McDonald, who is a Modern Woodmen. Both doctors are buried at Sayre-Doxey Cemetery. Dr. McDonald's marker is in the south part of the cemetery and looks like a tree trunk.

Jacob and Sam Davalt brought a load of hogs to Sayre. Jacob took sick and they started home. They reached Amanda Rider Moler Jarvis' house where they stayed three days. Alice and Grace came down to Amanda Jarvis' home. The doctor said Jacob would not live and to take him on home. Sam and others filled a wagon with straw and took him on to Buffalo (about 8 miles). Jacob lived three days after reaching Buffalo, dying September 1, 1909 and buried in Buffalo Cemetery.

Two years later, Robert Moler, son of Amanda Rider Moler, Jarvis, was cutting Alice Davalt's hay. Robert had a cold and chest congestion. He went to his home at Mayfield and died two days later.

Mabel Hagood was a midwife for Beatrice Moler Fuchs and is still living (1991) in Sayre, approximately 99 years old. Alice Davalt acted as midwife for Daniel and Agatha Fuchs.

This is a small introduction into the communication between the Davalt and Fuchs families.

John Davalt had many skills. He owned blacksmith equipment and would work for his neighbors to help support his family. He also was a good carpenter and he and Will Farrar, his wife's brother, worked as carpenters.

In October 1932, John, Eddie, his oldest son, and others re-built the house where Alice and Grace lived in Sayre after the original house burned. Ernestine Rodenberger was staying with them for a few days as she had another case of midwifery scheduled. Her clothes burned in the house, but she went on to stay with Georgie in November 1932 when Lynette was born.

Another source of income for John's family was stud fees. He bred and raised Percheron horses. Roland was one stallion that won many blue ribbons at the Elk City Fair. Roland weighted 2250 pounds and was born in Illinois. His full name was Roland Damascus 206408, and cost $1000 about 1920. Bessie did not think that they would be able to pay the note and feed the four children, but stud fees paid for Roland in one year. He was gentle and could be given a bath in the local swimming hole which was down on the Lewis farm on Coffee Bean Creek. Roland would prance down the road for his bath and after he was washed, he enjoyed being curried and to have his tail braided.

John also kept a jack standing at stud, but they were mean. One time, Jack, a registered jack, took a bite out of John's upper back while he was cleaning Jack's front feet. Jack clamped on for two hours because the only way to make Jack turn loose was to poke him in the eye and John could not reach his eye. The scar was buried with John.

The house that John built and where the family lived had one room. Eddie and I talked about how did mamma and Papa and us four kids sleep in that one room house. Eddie remembered that he slept on a pallet under the table which was planks and with benches for seating. Georgie and Luciel slept on a pallet under the bed where their parents slept and baby Lee slept in the bed with his parents. The mattresses were made of wheat straw as rye or oat straw would rot. On top of the wheat straw mattress would be a feather bed for comfort. John made shelves for the dishes and flatware and cast iron skillets. Sand was used to polish the flatware, granite pans and cast iron skillets.

I usually was the one to churn the butter in the dasher churn. We had a screen window for keeping the milk cool.

Bessie loved to piece quilts. Georgie does not like quilts to this day because she would only have one dress. Georgie would beg for a new dress when Bessie would buy new material, but Bessie would cut it into small pieces and make a quilt. Bessie carded the cotton grown on the farm for quilt batting. Cotton was picked and taken to the gin for removal of the seeds.

Georgie liked to sew. She would stay at home while the family went to town and make doll dresses from small scraps of material. She was so small that she would have to stand to treadle the Montgomery Ward sewing machine.

Their fuel was cow chips. John would take the wagon to the Chisholm Trail about 3 days after a herd had gone by and whey would load the wagon with dry cow chips. The #3 tub was used as a "wood box." On Saturday night, the wood box was emptied, filled with water and all the family members had their weekly bath. After bathing, the water was emptied from the "wood box" and refilled with "fuel."

During the winter, the train crew would kick coal off the car and John would take the kids in the wagon over to the tracks and would gather coal and this would last all winter for coal.

Georgie was a tart. Her brother and sister born between Eddie and her both died at birth. John wanted a boy to hunt and fish with him. When Georgie was born, he told everyone he would make a "boy" of her and so she was allowed to tag after him and be a tomboy. When Luciel was born, Georgie was sent to stay with Grandma Farrar. When she came home, she found out she had a baby sister. She did not want a baby sister and told everyone as much. Grandma Davalt wanted to punish Georgie and tried to put her in the cellar. Georgie kicked her shins so hard that Alice died with the scars from the kicking, but Georgie was not put in the cellar.

Eddie and Georgie teased Luciel. She would cry and run to Grandma Davalt (Alice Odessa). Grandma would try to shame them by saying that they treated her like a dog, so they nicknamed Luciel "Shep." She answered to that nickname until she was an adult.

Just south of the Davalt homestead, Mr. Morrison dug a mine with a shovel and pick, and a bucket for removing the dirt. The mine was dug on a slant and about 50 feet deep. He was looking for gold. All he found was fool's gold (iron pyrite). After the shaft was abandoned, Georgie liked to go play in the mine. She received may spankings for going up there to play.

Eddie found a rabbit in the mine and was bringing it home for dinner, but the rabbit kicked him so hard, it got away. Eddie said it felt like a mule kicking him.

John and Bessie grew varied crops, including watermelon, vegetables including parsnips, potatoes, onions which were stored in the root cellar for the winter. The root cellar was a hole dug in the ground, lined with straw, vegetables were then covered with the straw and dirt. When the vegetables were needed, a small amount of dirt was removed and then the vegetables from below the layer of straw. They also grew sugar cane for their sorghum. The press was about one mile west where the boiling pots were. The standing cane had the leaves removed by whacking with a stick. Then the stalks were cut and laid evenly on the wagon so that they could be fed into the press. After boiling, the sorghum was stored in buckets with lids which were used over again.

John Davalt chewed Brown Mule tobacco. Brown Mule was a compressed square of tobacco with a little red metal mule on the side. He would take his knife and cut off a small piece and put it in his cheek. He was deadly accurate with his spittle -- enjoying aiming at out bare feet and hitting between the big toe and second toe.

Eddie dipped snuff for 51 years and quit when he was 78 years old.

1n 1929, Eddie and Jack Floyd, cousin to Pretty Boy Floyd, got drunk on wine in John Davalt's cellar. They went to Sayre and were thrown in jail. They vomited from too much wine and had to clean up the mess before they could get out. Ugh!

The picture in front of the Davalt homestead was made on Thanksgiving Day 1917. A photographer traveling in a covered wagon came by and asked to make the picture. She had the picture made and thought John might fuss, but he didn't. He had gone that day to Buffalo to move Grandma Alice and Grace from Buffalo to Sayre. The negative is a glass negative and Chloe Hindman Andrews has possession of the negative. The picture is made from this glass negative and we since have had a film negative made so that copies are available for anyone. The information on the cover for the glass negative reads as follows:

Mrs. Jno Davalt

P.O. Doxey RFD 1

Directions 9-1/2 miles SW, 7-1/2 miles West and

2 miles south of Elk City

Color Convex 14 x 20 $5.98

House light buff

Trimmings dark buff

Put foliage on trees

Representative Reed & Green from

Fidelity Art Adv. Co.

312 2nd Street

Kansas City, Missouri (on corner "63")

Georgie has the 14 x 20 convex color picture.

John Davalt served on the Spring Creek District #9 Sayre Township School Board. This information is noted on Georgie's April 24, 1920 farewell card from her teacher Flora I. Walker.

Georgia Davalt was promoted to the ninth grade on June 1, 1926 at Merritt School. Georgia Davalt was a pupil of District 2-C, Beckham County, and was neither absent nor tardy for a period of three years, being a mark of diligence and exemplary deportment; she was given a Diploma of Honor on May 22, 1928.

The panties we wore were made from flour sacks which were a heavy white cotton material. They had a band and button. Men always wore long handles and John always wore overalls.

Eddie started to school when he was eight years of age. Georgie started at age 6.

About 1923, Georgie and Carl Poff were looking out the classroom window. A big women, about 6 feet tall and weighing between 250-300 pounds, it took one width of fabric for the front and one for the back and was nicknamed Big 6 Morris. Georgie and Carl saw her kick her mule over the tongue of the wagon because he would not move over. They laughed and were sent to see J. R. King, the principal, for a whipping. When they told him why they laughed, he told them not to look out the window anymore.

DEATH NOTICE - Tucson Daily Citizen; Tucson, Arizona; Monday, November 13, 1950; Page 10:

HARRY A. McCOY

Harry Alonzo McCoy Sr. died today at his home, 4753 E. 10th st. Arrangements will be announced by the Parker-Kerr Mortuary.

OBITUARY - Salt Lake Trubune, May 4, 2002

Helen Irene McCoy Long, age 83, joyfully entered into the presence of her Lord Jesus Christ, while surrounded by her family, on May 2, 2002 in Salt lake City, Utah.

She was born June 8, 1918 to Harry McCoy and Mary Tofall McCoy in Keokuk, Iowa. She married Harry Long, July 4, 1940. Her devotion to the Lord was apparent every day of her life.

The strength and love of Jesus flowed through her and to anyone that she ever knew. Her incredible faithfulness lead many people to know Jesus as she did and her unselfish love will always be cherished.

Survived by brother Richard and wife Bernice; daughter Becky and son-in-law Mark; grandchildren Heidi Edmund (Benji), Chelsea and Nick; cousins, one niece and three nephews. Dear friends Val and Rosene Nelson. Preceded in death by husband, parents, brother Harry.

In Lieu of flowers please send contributions to the Prison Fellowship Ministries, PO Box 1550, Merrifield, VA 22116-1550.

Funeral services will be held Monday, May 6, 2002, 11:00 a.m. at Memorial Mortuary, 5850 South 900 East, where friends may call Sunday from 5-7 p.m. and one hour prior to the service. Interment, Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery San Diego, CA.

Dates per SSDI, last residence Sun Valley. OBITUARY - Ventura County Star; California; Sunday, July 3, 2011

A celebration of life will be held at 4 in the afternoon on July 9, at the Calvary Chapel in Thousand Oaks. Richard Edward McCoy slipped away peacefully from this earth to be with his heavenly father on June 25, 2011, at the age of 82.

Dick as everyone knew him, was born to Harry and Mary (Tofall) McCoy on Jan. 30, 1929, in Concord, Calif. After graduating from high school, Dick decided to get into the contracting business, as most people will remember him as the floorman. Dick had a passion for flooring, everywhere he went, he was always critiquing the work. On July 15, 2000, Dick married his sweetheart, Bernice R. (Cabacungan) McCoy, in Vista, Calif. Together they made their home in Thousand Oaks, and Baja, Calif. Dick, even though he was self-employed as a floor contractor, did not look at it as a job, he looked at it more as a hobby; he enjoyed what he did for a living.

Some of Dick's other great pastimes, were fishing, working on his buggy, reading his bible, learning Spanish. Dick always seemed to have some sort of project going on, but no matter what project he had, or how busy he was, he always made sure he was a great husband to Bernie and a great father and grandfather to his children and grandchildren.

Mr. McCoy is preceded in death by his mother, Mary; father, Harry Sr.; brother; Harry Jr.; sister, Helen; and his son, Clint. Dick leaves behind to carry on his memory and legacy to his loving wife, Bernice; children, Marty, Curtis, Karen and Kevin. He also leaves behind his two stepchildren, along with his grandchildren, Jason, Patrick and Joanna. Also to mourn his loss are his nine step-grandchildren and six great -grandchildren.

Arrangements are in the care of Abbey Memorial, Funeral Directors and Cremation, A Heritage Life Tribute Center, Thousand Oaks, 487-4200.