Royal Webster Nash (1878-1950)

NASH, BUCHANAN, NELSON, KOOKER, LEBAY, GULLICK

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:14

From Nevada Evening Journal April 24, 1950 (page 3)

Last Rites For Royal W. Nash Held on Monday

Funeral services for Royal W. Nash were held form the Ryan Funeral Home Monday afternoon at 2:30 with the Rev. Floyd A. Smith, of the Nevada Methodist church, officiating. Organ music was played at the opening and close of the service. Many beautiful floral pieces surrounded the bier and bore testimony to the high esteem in which the deceased was held in Nevada and in the company in which he had been employed.

There were a number of executives of the Iowa Electric Light and Power company from out of town in attendance at the last rites and also many members of the local Masonic Lodge No. 99, who attended the service in a body and had charge of the service at the graveside.

The casket bearers were Kenneth Kinsey, Frank Purk, Roy Bonine, Fred McConnell, Ray Taylor and Mervin Hilleman.

Burial was in the Nevada cemetery.

Obituary

Royal Webster Nash was born in Lime Springs, Iowa on August 12, 1878, the only son of Allen R. and Victoria H. Nash. He attended the Lime Spring public schools and later enrolled in a course in diesel engineering from International Correspondence Schools.

Mr. Nash was married to Alta May Buchanan on June 28, 1905. To this union was born one son, Royal B. Nash, two daughters; Mrs. Marjorie Nelson of Nevada and Mrs. Luverne Kooker of Des Moines.

In 1914 the Nash family moved to Centerville, Iowa where Mr. Nash was Chief Engineer for the Iowa Railway and Light Company for eight years. He was transferred to Peterson, Iowa as Chief Engineer for the same company, and remained there for eight years. In 1930 the family came to Nevada where Mr. Nash was appointed Chief Engineer for the Iowa Electric Light and Power company in which position he was active until his death.

He was preceded in death by one sister, Gladys Nash LeBay, who died in 1929 and by his only son, Royal B. Nash who died February 26, 1950.

He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Kenneth Nelson of Nevada and Mrs. Luverne Kooker of Des Moines, and one sister, Mrs. Isabel Gullic, of Winnebago, Minn. Also surviving are several nephews, Elliott LeBay of Denver, Colo., Morris LeBay of Winnebago, Minn., Jack Buchanan of South Roxana, Ill., Donald Mead of Davenport, and George Mead of Cottage Hills, Ill.,; Nieces, Lois LeBay Hergert of St. Peter, Minn., Allene Bush of Winnebago, Minn. and Marian Hess of New Haven, Conn., and two grandchildren; Thomas Lynn and James Craig Nelson of Nevada.

There are numerous other relatives and a host of friends and neighbors who join this bereaved family in their second loss in less than two months.

Mr. Nash was a member of the Nevada Masonic Lodge.

Executives Attend

Among the executives of the Iowa Railway and Light Company in attendance at the last rites were Duane Arnold, Henry Mead, Harold H. Brown and B. C. Woodson of Cedar Rapids and a number of Light company employees from Marshalltown and elsewhere.