James Raymond Nevin (1893-1944)

NEVIN, BAER, KIBLER

Posted By: John Davis (email)
Date: 3/23/2020 at 09:00:14

Obit posted in Ottumwa Courier September 6, 1944
James R. Nevin, Acting City Engineer, Is Dead
Brother Of Ottumwa’s Mayor Was Veteran Of First World War.
James Raymond Nevin acting Ottumwa city engineer, died at 2 a.m. today at the Veterans hospital in Des Moines. He was born January 21, 1893, at Forbush, Iowa, the son of James and Jeanette Nevin. Early in life he moved to Ottumwa and attended the Ottumwa elementary schools and Ottumwa high school from which he graduated with the class of 1913. He then attended the University of Missouri, school of mines and metallurgy at Rolla, Missouri, where he graduated as a mining engineer in 1917. In the first World war he attended the officers candidate school at Camp Humphries, Virginia, where one of his sons is now assigned to and officers candidate school in the same camp that is now called Fort Belvoir.
Illinois Engineer
After graduating from college, he lived in Ottumwa unitl 1923 and served as assistant city engineer, and later was county engineer of Jefferson county for one year. He then moved to Woodstock, Illinois where he headquartered as assistant highway engineer for the State of Illinois for 20 years, unitl in October of 1942 he entered the Hines veterans hospital for treatment. When he was discharged from the Hines hospital in September of 1943 he returned to Ottumwa and was assigned the post of acting city engineer here in Ottumwa.
Obit cut off restarts from page one…. Earsel Edington Nevin at their home 431 North Jefferson street, and by the following children; twin sons Ensign John W. Nevin, with the Navy at Hollywood, Florida and James Raymond Nevin Jr. seaman first class in the Navy, Corporal Frederick Eugene Nevin at Fort Belvoir, Virginia one daughter, Miss Patricia E. Nevin a cadet nurse at Presbyterian hospital in Chicago. The three sons are all engineering graduates from the same college from which their father received his degree. He is also survived by the following brothers and sisters, Dr. John Nevin, Barstor, California, Morgan D. Nevin, mayor of Ottumwa, Mrs. Mary Baer, Davenport and Mrs. Jeanette Kibler, Humbolt, Illinois. Nevin was a member of the American Legion and was active in Boy Scout work, during his residence in Illinois. He was also a member of the Engineering society of Illinois and was a licensed Iowa engineer. The body was brought to the Johnson funeral chapel where it will remain pending completion of funeral arrangements.