Arnold Paul DeVries was born November 30, 1921 in Kesley, Iowa, the son of George and Helene (Hintzen) DeVries. He died of cancer on 16 February 1996 at his home in Greene, Iowa.
Funeral services were held at Reid’s Funeral Chapel with services conducted by Rev. Galen Smith of the First Presbyterian Church. Burial in the Bethel Reformed Cemetery, Kesley, Iowa.
Arnold DeVries received his education in the Kesley Schools, graduated from Aplington High School (1939). He attended the University of Iowa.
He worked in his father’s hardware store as a young man; moved to California at the start of WWII for a short time. Returned to Chicago to work at an aircraft plant. Towards the end of WWII Arnold returned to California and worked as a City of Los Angeles bus driver on the famed route of Hollywood and Vine.
As a young man, Arnold developed an interest in nature and primitive man. He published his first book “Primitive Man and His Foods” in 1952. Other books were published in the following years.
Arnold Paul DeVries married Dorice E. Shemtob on 16 October, 1959 in Beverly Hills, California. They lived there until 1969 when they purchased their first home in Greene, Iowa. Dorice died on 23 June, 1981. Arnold then married Mary K Parmely on 16 July 1986 in the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. That marriage ended in 1993.
Survivors include his companion, Mary Parmely, three daughters, two grandchildren and one sister. He was preceded in death by his first wife Dorice, two infant children, both parents, one brother George DeVries Jr. and one sister Esther Casjens.
(Obituary published in the Mason City Globe Gazette, 19 Feb 1996.)
Contributor: Patricia Casjens
Funeral services were held at Reid’s Funeral Chapel with services conducted by Rev. Galen Smith of the First Presbyterian Church. Burial in the Bethel Reformed Cemetery, Kesley, Iowa.
Arnold DeVries received his education in the Kesley Schools, graduated from Aplington High School (1939). He attended the University of Iowa.
He worked in his father’s hardware store as a young man; moved to California at the start of WWII for a short time. Returned to Chicago to work at an aircraft plant. Towards the end of WWII Arnold returned to California and worked as a City of Los Angeles bus driver on the famed route of Hollywood and Vine.
As a young man, Arnold developed an interest in nature and primitive man. He published his first book “Primitive Man and His Foods” in 1952. Other books were published in the following years.
Arnold Paul DeVries married Dorice E. Shemtob on 16 October, 1959 in Beverly Hills, California. They lived there until 1969 when they purchased their first home in Greene, Iowa. Dorice died on 23 June, 1981. Arnold then married Mary K Parmely on 16 July 1986 in the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. That marriage ended in 1993.
Survivors include his companion, Mary Parmely, three daughters, two grandchildren and one sister. He was preceded in death by his first wife Dorice, two infant children, both parents, one brother George DeVries Jr. and one sister Esther Casjens.
(Obituary published in the Mason City Globe Gazette, 19 Feb 1996.)
Contributor: Patricia Casjens
Arnold Paul DeVries was born November 30, 1921 in Kesley, Iowa, the son of George and Helene (Hintzen) DeVries. He died of cancer on 16 February 1996 at his home in Greene, Iowa.
Funeral services were held at Reid’s Funeral Chapel with services conducted by Rev. Galen Smith of the First Presbyterian Church. Burial in the Bethel Reformed Cemetery, Kesley, Iowa.
Arnold DeVries received his education in the Kesley Schools, graduated from Aplington High School (1939). He attended the University of Iowa.
He worked in his father’s hardware store as a young man; moved to California at the start of WWII for a short time. Returned to Chicago to work at an aircraft plant. Towards the end of WWII Arnold returned to California and worked as a City of Los Angeles bus driver on the famed route of Hollywood and Vine.
As a young man, Arnold developed an interest in nature and primitive man. He published his first book “Primitive Man and His Foods” in 1952. Other books were published in the following years.
Arnold Paul DeVries married Dorice E. Shemtob on 16 October, 1959 in Beverly Hills, California. They lived there until 1969 when they purchased their first home in Greene, Iowa. Dorice died on 23 June, 1981. Arnold then married Mary K Parmely on 16 July 1986 in the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. That marriage ended in 1993.
Survivors include his companion, Mary Parmely, three daughters, two grandchildren and one sister. He was preceded in death by his first wife Dorice, two infant children, both parents, one brother George DeVries Jr. and one sister Esther Casjens.
(Obituary published in the Mason City Globe Gazette, 19 Feb 1996.)
Contributor: Patricia Casjens
Funeral services were held at Reid’s Funeral Chapel with services conducted by Rev. Galen Smith of the First Presbyterian Church. Burial in the Bethel Reformed Cemetery, Kesley, Iowa.
Arnold DeVries received his education in the Kesley Schools, graduated from Aplington High School (1939). He attended the University of Iowa.
He worked in his father’s hardware store as a young man; moved to California at the start of WWII for a short time. Returned to Chicago to work at an aircraft plant. Towards the end of WWII Arnold returned to California and worked as a City of Los Angeles bus driver on the famed route of Hollywood and Vine.
As a young man, Arnold developed an interest in nature and primitive man. He published his first book “Primitive Man and His Foods” in 1952. Other books were published in the following years.
Arnold Paul DeVries married Dorice E. Shemtob on 16 October, 1959 in Beverly Hills, California. They lived there until 1969 when they purchased their first home in Greene, Iowa. Dorice died on 23 June, 1981. Arnold then married Mary K Parmely on 16 July 1986 in the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. That marriage ended in 1993.
Survivors include his companion, Mary Parmely, three daughters, two grandchildren and one sister. He was preceded in death by his first wife Dorice, two infant children, both parents, one brother George DeVries Jr. and one sister Esther Casjens.
(Obituary published in the Mason City Globe Gazette, 19 Feb 1996.)
Contributor: Patricia Casjens
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