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SILVEY, Wray D., Dr 1912-1973

SILVEY, JONES, BROWN, WILLIAMS HANSELL

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 10/3/2013 at 02:06:02

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Monday, September 3, 1973]

CEDAR FALLS-Dr. Wray D. Silvey, 61, of 5701 S. Cedar Heights Dr., a professor in the College of Education at the University of Northern Iowa, was killed Sunday in a tractor accident on his farm near Warrensburg, Mo.

Dr. Silvey was head of the Department of School Administration and Personnel at UNI.

According to Dr. Keith Jones, county medical examiner at Warrensburg, Dr. Silvey died when his tractor turned over, pinning him beneath it.

Dr. Silvey was born March 13, 1912, in Versailles , Mo., the son of J. J. and Minnie Jones Silvey. He married Ina Mae Brown at Liberty, Mo, in 1937.

He was a member of Phi Delta Kappa, the American and the Iowa Personnel and Guidance Associations and the Masonic Lodge. He was a member of the First Christian Church of Cedar Falls.

Funeral arrangements are pending.

Survivors include his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Edgar Hansell of Des Moines; one brother, Dr. Herbert Silvey of 1025 W. Eighth St.; one sister, Mrs. Hazel Williams of Versailles, Mo.: and two grandchildren.

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[Waterloo Daily Courier, Tuesday, September 4, 1973]

CEDAR FALLS - Funeral services for Dr. Wray D. Silvey will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the First Christian Church instead of Nelson-Richardson Funeral Home as previously planned.

Dr. Silvey, 61, of 5701 S. Cedar Heights Dr., died following a tractor accident on his farm near Warrensburg, Mo. Sunday.

The family requests there be no visitations. The Wray D. Silvey Scholarship Fund has been established;

Dr. Silvey received his doctorate at the University of Missouri. Prior to this he taught in the public schools of Missouri, coming to the University of Northern Iowa in 1950. He also was a visiting professor at Georgia Teachers College in Georgia. Oregon State Teachers College and Arizona State Teachers College.


 

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