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Eugene Walter Dovel

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Eugene Walter Dovel

Birth
Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
Death
5 Jul 1957 (aged 78)
Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Eugene Dovel Rites

Funeral services for Eugene Walter Dovel, who died Friday evening at his residence in the Humes Run community near Elkton, will be held this afternoon at two o'clock from the St. Peters EUB Church.

Services will be conducted by his pastor, the Rev. J. Edward Swain, assisted by the Rev. Lee E. Sheaffer, of Petersburg, W. Va. Burial will be in the St. Peters Church cemetery.

Active pallbearers will be: Everette B. Taylor, C. M. Dovel, Homer F. Dovel, Ralph H. Jenkins, Ambrose Shifflett and Jennings J. Meadows.

Honorary pallbearers will be: H. Clyde Hisey, Dr. B. C. Shuler, Ben F. Rolston, Raymond H. Stepp, Wilmer N. Dovel, Carl E. Dovel, John E. Dovel, W. Oswell Dovel, Loring W. Snyder, Max Louderback, Mohler Foltz, Floyd Kite, E. E. Garrison, Edgar Shifflett, and Oliver Dovel.

Members of the Ladies Aid Society of the St. Peters Church will serve as flower bearers.

The body was removed from the Lindsey Funeral Home in Harrisonburg, Sunday afternoon, to his late home it will remain until 12:30 this afternoon when it will be taken to the church.

Relatives will meet at the Dovel residence, this afternoon at 1:45 for a brief service.

Mr. Dovel had been in failing health for the past year.

A son of the late Lucius B. and Diana Dovel, he was born on November 5, 1878 at Humes Run where he had spent his entire life. Mr. Dovel was engaged in farming.

Mr. Dovel was a member of the St. Peters Church and had served as the superintendent of the Sunday School for a period of 35 years. He was also the treasurer of the church and was a member of the board of trustees.

Mr. Dovel was married twice. His first wife, the former Miss Betty Elizabeth McCauley who died in 1922. On December 10, 1924, he married Miss Nina Florence Kite, who survives him.

Besides his wife, he is survived by seven children, Mrs. Raymond Stanley, Mrs. Oscar Foltz, and Mrs. Bertram Kite, all of Shenandoah; Carl W. Dovel, and Paul A. Dovel, both of Elkton; Mrs. Raymond Loster, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Roy Foltz, at home; twenty grandchildren, ten great grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. E. M. Foltz, and Mrs. Art Stepp, both of Elkton.

Daily News Record, July 8, 1957
Eugene Dovel Rites

Funeral services for Eugene Walter Dovel, who died Friday evening at his residence in the Humes Run community near Elkton, will be held this afternoon at two o'clock from the St. Peters EUB Church.

Services will be conducted by his pastor, the Rev. J. Edward Swain, assisted by the Rev. Lee E. Sheaffer, of Petersburg, W. Va. Burial will be in the St. Peters Church cemetery.

Active pallbearers will be: Everette B. Taylor, C. M. Dovel, Homer F. Dovel, Ralph H. Jenkins, Ambrose Shifflett and Jennings J. Meadows.

Honorary pallbearers will be: H. Clyde Hisey, Dr. B. C. Shuler, Ben F. Rolston, Raymond H. Stepp, Wilmer N. Dovel, Carl E. Dovel, John E. Dovel, W. Oswell Dovel, Loring W. Snyder, Max Louderback, Mohler Foltz, Floyd Kite, E. E. Garrison, Edgar Shifflett, and Oliver Dovel.

Members of the Ladies Aid Society of the St. Peters Church will serve as flower bearers.

The body was removed from the Lindsey Funeral Home in Harrisonburg, Sunday afternoon, to his late home it will remain until 12:30 this afternoon when it will be taken to the church.

Relatives will meet at the Dovel residence, this afternoon at 1:45 for a brief service.

Mr. Dovel had been in failing health for the past year.

A son of the late Lucius B. and Diana Dovel, he was born on November 5, 1878 at Humes Run where he had spent his entire life. Mr. Dovel was engaged in farming.

Mr. Dovel was a member of the St. Peters Church and had served as the superintendent of the Sunday School for a period of 35 years. He was also the treasurer of the church and was a member of the board of trustees.

Mr. Dovel was married twice. His first wife, the former Miss Betty Elizabeth McCauley who died in 1922. On December 10, 1924, he married Miss Nina Florence Kite, who survives him.

Besides his wife, he is survived by seven children, Mrs. Raymond Stanley, Mrs. Oscar Foltz, and Mrs. Bertram Kite, all of Shenandoah; Carl W. Dovel, and Paul A. Dovel, both of Elkton; Mrs. Raymond Loster, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Roy Foltz, at home; twenty grandchildren, ten great grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. E. M. Foltz, and Mrs. Art Stepp, both of Elkton.

Daily News Record, July 8, 1957


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