Obit: Devos, Alta A. (? - 1973)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
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Surnames: Devos, Detton, Rand, Nickel

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 11/15/1973

Devos, Alta A. (? - 9 November 1973)

Private services were held from the Georgas Funeral Home in Neillsville Monday for Mrs. Alta A. Devos of Neillsville, who died Friday at Memorial Home, where she had been a resident for nine days. The Rev. Melvin Nickel of the First Methodist Church of Neillsville was in charge. Burial was made in the family mausoleum in Neillsville City Cemetery.

Mrs. Devos was the widow of the late Alfred Devos, who was a prominent local attorney and a past Grand Master of the Masonic Order in Wisconsin. He died in 1959. There were no children.

For several years Mrs. Devos owned and operated a dress shop in Neillsville.

The daughter of the late Henry and Martha (Detton) Rand, Mrs. Devos was born in rural Greenwood. She is survived by a brother, Paris Rand of Eldorado.