Obit: Ravy, Nellie #3 (1872 - 1954)

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Surnames: Ravy, Hamblin

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 10/14/1954

Ravy, Nellie #3 (4 JUL 1872 - 30 SEP 1954)

Mrs. Nellie Ravy died Thursday, Sept. 30, 1954, at 7:10 p.m. at her home in Colby at the age of 82 years following a lingering illness.  Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. at the Colby Methodist Church, Rev. Harvey Schall officiating, and burial was made in Pine Hill Cemetery at Curtiss (Clark Co., Wis.).

Pallbearers were Harry Olson, L. W. Smiley, Harold House, Chet Knight, Henry House, and Walter Lueth.

Mrs. Ravy, nee Hamblin, was born in Rosendale, fond du Lac County, on July 4, 1872, thus reaching the age of 82 years, 2 months and 26 days.  She married Walter A. Ravy at Ripon, Wis., on July 8, 1903.  The couple lived in Berlin and Ripon for several years and then moved onto a farm north of Curtiss where they lived for 33 years.  Her husband died on Oct. 24, 1941.  For the past 12 years Mrs. Ravy made her home with her son, John T. Ravy, in Abbotsford and Colby.