Veber, Erville 1910-1947

VEBER, CRAVEN, MULBROOK

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 5/15/2005 at 05:19:21

Erville Veber, 37, Kellogg Business Man, Dies Sunday
(Special to The Daily News, Newton, IA)

Veber, Erville

Kellogg - Erville William Veber, 37, died at four o'clock Sunday morning at the Community hospital in Grinnell where he was admitted Saturday.

Death was atributed to a brain tumor from which he had suffered the past four months. During his illness he had been a patient at the Mercy hospital in Des Moines and the Community hospital in Grinnell.

Funeral Services will be held at the Kellogg Christian church at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Rev. B.L. Barnes will officiate. Burial will be in Our Silent City cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Johnson-Murdoch Funeral Home in Kellogg.

Mrs. Mabel Veber will play the organ selections before and after the services. A male quartet, Howard Guthrie, Bill Gill, Rev. W.W. Watson and Don Foster will sing, "In the Garden" and "The Old Rugged Cross".

Mrs. James Nesmith and Mrs. LeRoy Richardson will be in charge of the floral tributes.

Pallbearers will be James Nesmith, Carl Quinn, LeRoy Richardson, George Kling, Lester Kooistra, and Howard Scarbrough.

Members of the Boy Scout Troop 356 will attend the services in a body.

Erville William Veber, son of William and Tina Veber, was born Aug. 11, 1910 in Kellogg, and had spent his entire life in that community. He was a member of the 1928 graduating class of the Kellogg high school and since 1937 had operated the Veber gas station located on Highway 6. Following World War II he took his younger brother, Max, in as junior partner and at that time installed a bulk station. He served as town councilman in 1945-46 and was a member of the Christian church.

He was united in marriage to Miss Dorothy Craven in Des Moines, Jan. 23, 1934, who with two sons, Garry V. 12, and Gayle L, eight, survive. Other survivors are three brothers, Max and Charles of Kellogg, Earl of Phoenix Ariz.; one sister, Mrs. Roy (Ila) Mulbrook, Gifford, Ia., and his father of Kellogg.

He was preceded in death by his mother and a sister, Gladys.

Originally submitted on Sat Oct 26 22:45:52 2002 by Susan K. Soden