DeVITT, Will ca.1880-1941

DEVITT, CASEY, REED, PICKETT

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 5/6/2007 at 11:44:23

Osage News
March 27, 1941

Will Devitt Dies
In Chicago After
Recent Accident

Will Devitt about 60, died in Chicago last Friday, according to word received here by his sisters, Mrs. Ben Casey and Winnie Devitt. Neither of the women was able to attend the funeral services. Burial was made in a Chicago cemetery.

Will was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Devitt and spent his boyhood in Mitchell county. He began work for a railroad company years ago and it was in the railroad yards in Chicago that he met with the accident some weeks ago, that resulted in his death. He struck his head in a fall, and never regained consciousness. Mrs.

Casey visited his bedside recently.

Surviving are the following brothers and sisters; Mike, Des Moines, Jim, in California, Frank, Minneapolis, Mrs. Ben Casey and Winnie Devitt, Osage, Mrs. Harry Reed, Chicago, and Mrs Agness Pickett in California.