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Francis Joseph Nevins

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Class of 1910

Feb. 14, 1892 – Dec. 31, 1970

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Born in 1892 to John and Julia Nevins in Weiser.

1900 lived on Commercial St., Weiser with parents and 4 siblings. Oldest sister had 3 kids also. Father was a foreman for RR.

1910 lived with parents and 2 siblings on Second St., Weiser. Salesman in Drugstore.

1913 married Ethel Sater (See class of 1909) Later divorced.

1916 married Bertha Alford in Baker, OR.

1920-40 lived in Huntington, OR with wife and 1 child. Owned Cigar Store. 1 year college.

1950 lived in Huntington, OR with wife. He was a Painter.

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Francis Joseph Nevins

The following data is extracted from Baker County, Oregon Obituaries.

A longtime Baker resident, Francis Joseph Nevins, 78, 1602 Broadway, died suddenly Thursday morning at St. Elizabeth Hospital.

Recitation of the Rosary will be conducted on Sunday evening at 7:30 at Gray’s West and Company Pioneer Chapel. Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a. m. Monday, January 4, at St. Francis Cathedral with the Reverend Calvin E. Schwenk officiating. Interment will follow in the family plot at Mt. Hope Cemetery.

Mr. Nevins was born in Weiser, Idaho on Feb. 14, 1892. He is the son of John J. and Julia A. Barrett Nevins.

He was educated in Weiser and attended the University of Idaho. He moved to Huntington in 1911 where he worked for a drugstore and the railroad.

He married Bertha Alford Nevins in 1915. He owned and operated the Smoke House in Huntington from 1916 until 1940 and raised horses and cattle. In recent years he worked as a painting contractor in Baker.

He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Earl (Mary Ann) Hamilton, La Grande and Mrs. Harold (Marjorie) Cardes, Prineville. One brother, Clifford B. Nevins, Huntington, four grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

He was a member of the Baker Elks Lodge.

Baker Democrat Herald – Jan. 2, 1971

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Also See WHS Graduates – 1910
Also See WHS Graduates
Also See Weiser High School
Also See Weiser Area Obituaries