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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Devenport
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 18:48:35 -0500


Article from unknown source with handwritten date of Apr 3, (1965).
Extracted from the newspaper article collection started in 1879 by Mrs.
Nannie Brown of Madison, Missouri.



Fred A. Devenport



"Fred A. Devenport, 65, Madison, died unexpectedly Friday afternoon
around 5:00 o'clock while sitting in his care in the Madison business
section. Mr. and Mrs. Devenport had driven to the business section and
while she was shopping he was waiting for her in the car. When she
returned, she found him slumped over the wheel. Surviving him are his
widow, Mrs. Grace Devenport, and one son Raymond L. Devenport, Moberly;
one daughter, Mrs. John Forsyth, of Paris; two brothers, Chester H.
Devenport, Huntsville, and T.C. (Cliff) Devenport, Cairo; two sister,
Mrs. Floyd Pagett, Moberly and Mrs. Robert Anderson, Brunswick; six
grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.

Son of the late Ira and Sally Ladd Devenport, he had farmed in the
Madison vicinity until four years ago. When he moved to Madison. Elder
in the Madison Christian Church, he was also a past master of the
Masonic Lodge and a past Worthy Patron of the Madison Eastern Star
Lodge. He was also active in the Madison Saddle Club and other local
organizations. The body was taken to the Thompson - Mackler Funeral
Home and services conducted at 2:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the
Madison Christian Church by Rev. Robert leach, the pastor. Burial was
in the mausoleum in the Madison cemetery."





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