E. Blake Devitt Of Rushville DiesE. Blake Devitt Of Rushville DiesE. Blake Devitt, 93, of Rushville, died Monday, Nov. 4, 1985, at Culbertson Memorial Hospital in Rushville.
He was born Oct. 4, 1892, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, a son of Alva E. and Annie Weber Devitt. He married Helen J. Haskell May 18, 1918, in Chillicothe, Ohio. She died July 28, 1985.
Surviving are a son, William of Rushville; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a brother and two sisters.
He was a retail merchant 77 years the last being in charge of advertising and displays at Moreland and Devitt Drug Store. He was an Army veteran of World War I.
He was a member of Rushville First Presbyterian Church where he served as an elder and choir member, a 60-year member of Silver Cord Masonic Lodge in Cleveland, Ohio, Schuyler Post 4 American Legion and Rushville Rotary Club where he was a Paul Harris Fellow.
Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church in Rushville with Rev. Michel Orsted officiating. Burial was in Rushville City Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the First Presbyterian Church.
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