Charles E. McVay (1869-1937)

MCVAY, COATS, OHMIT

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/14/2022 at 18:28:21

From Nevada Evening Journal March 10, 1937 (page 3)

McVay Funeral Thursday at 1:00; Burial at Farnhamville

Funeral rites for the late C. E. McVay, who died at Iowa sanitarium Tuesday at 11:15 a. m., at 1:00 at the Morfoot Funeral Home, with Rev. C. D. Loose of the Methodist Episcopal church in charge.

Immediately following the service here, the body, accompanied by the funeral party, will be taken to Farnhamville, in Calhoun county, where there will be a Masonic committal service at the Farnhamville cemetery.

Mr. McVay, whose home was at 1018 Fourth street, was a long time photographer in Nevada, but had been compelled to retire a few years ago because of ill health.

He had been a constant sufferer from arthritis and other complications but late Saturday suffered an acute attack of pain and was taken to Iowa sanitarium, where he submitted to a double emergency operation; for strangulated hernia and acute appendicitis.

Charles E. McVay, long a prominent resident of Nevada, passed away here on March 9, 1937, at the age of sixty-seven years.

Mr. McVay was born in Athens county, Ohio, on November 1, 1869, the son of Jacob C. and Sarah E. McVay. He came with his parents to Calhoun county, Iowa when he was about eight years of age and lived there most of the time until he came to Nevada about twenty-three years ago. He was on of three children. His only brother died in May of 1935 and his surviving sister, Mrs. C. E. Ohmit, resides in Pe-Ell, Washington.

In September, 1907, Mr. McVay was married to Miss Addie Coats who survives him.

In 1898 Mr. McVay enlisted in Co. B, 52nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry, as a soldier in the Spanish-American War and he served until the musterout of the regiment. The command was one that suffered heavy losses during the typhoid fever epidemic that swept Camp Thomas at Chicamauga, Georgia.

Mr. McVay was prominent in Masonic affairs, being a member of Nevada Lodge No. 99, and at the time of his death was a trustee of the lodge. He also had membership in the United Spanish War Veterans organization. He was highly respected and beloved by all who knew him and will be greatly missed by his friends and associates in Nevada.

He had served several years as a member of the Story County Soldiers Relief commission and had held other positions of trust in the community.

Funeral services are to be held at 1 p. m. on Thursday at the Morfoot Funeral Home and burial will be in the cemetery at Farnhamville, Iowa. The services at the cemetery will be in charge of the Masonic lodge of Nevada and the American Legion Post at Farnhamville.