Ralph E. DAVEY

DAVEY, BEDNAR, BARNISH, STANCIL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/2/2006 at 03:50:37

Northwood Anchor [IA] August 06, 2002

Ralph E. Davey, 82, of Manly, died Saturday, Aug. 3, 2002, at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City. A funeral mass was held Wednesday at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Manly, with Rev. David Kucera officiating. Burial was in the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery in Manly.

Ralph E. Davey was born on Oct. 8, 1919, in Clarion, the son of Frank and Eleanora (Bednar) Davey. He attended and received his education in the Manly School system, graduating from Manly High School in 1938. After completing his schooling he began working at the Kraus Department Store in Manly, and also worked for A & P Grocery store in Mason City. He married Ann Barnish on Oct. 24, 1940, in Northwood. After their marriage they moved to Waterloo in 1942, where Ralph worked for Montgomery Ward Store and he also worked for Rath Meat Packing Company before moving back to Manly where he worked as a conductor for the Rock Island Railroad for 39 years before his retirement in 1979. After his retirement he worked for Pinkerton Security in Mason City for several years. He enjoyed gardening, picking raspberries, fishing, hunting, playing cards with the senior citizens in Plymouth, and was an avid Hawkeye football and basketball fan, but his great love and enjoyment was his family and grandchildren. He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Manly, Plymouth Senior Citizens, was the secretary of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and a UTU Teamsters member.

Left to cherish his memory is his wife, Ann Davey of Manly; two sons, Jim Davey and his wife Melanie Stancil of Knightdale, NC, and Ralph Davey and his wife Joan of Manly; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; one brother, William Davey and his wife Corrine of Gadsden, Alabama; as well as other relatives and many friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, a daughter, Sharon Davey who died in infancy and a baby brother.