Anna "Annie" Weber

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• Name: Anna "Annie" Devitt
• Eby ID Number: 00127-7778
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1939, 79 Erb St. E., Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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Anna Weber," was born April 6th, 1869. She is married to Alvah Devitt. They reside in the town of Waterloo where he is engaged in the drug business. Their family consists of two children named VII Gladys Emma, and VII Edward Blake."

Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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Mrs. Annie Devitt

Mrs. Annie Devitt, widow of Elvah E. Devitt, formerly of Waterloo, died at the Elmira Private Hospital last night following a brief illness. She was in her 82nd year. Her husband predeceased her five years ago.

She had resided in Elmira since last July.

She is survived by one daughter, Gladys, Mrs. Fred Ruppel of Elmira, two sons, Blake, Cleveland, Ohio, and Reginald in England. Nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive her.

In addition she leaves two sisters, Mrs. W. H. Baetz, Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. C. T. Walmsley, Chicago.

One daughter. Mrs. A. C. Mc-Lean, Brantford, predeceased her. Mrs. Devitt was a member of First United Church, Waterloo.

The funeral will be held from the Dreisinger Funeral Chapel Thursday at 2 p m. Rev. A. R. Crags, Waterloo, will conduct the services assisted by Rev. W. M. B. Metcalfe. The body is resting at the funeral parlors. Interment will take place at Waterloo Mt. Hope Cemetery.

Anna married Alvah Edison Devitt 14 May 1890, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Alvah (son of Mayor Benjamin Devitt and Nancy Lewis Bowman) was born 4 Aug 1865, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 28 Jan 1939; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Gladys Emma Ruppel
• Eby ID Number: 00127-7778.2
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Music: 1914, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; The Musicial The "BulBul"

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Music:
Cast members of the amateur production of "Bulbul", a comic operetta performed at the town hall of Waterloo May 19-20, 1914.

Left to right: John Bruegeman; Eleanor Kirsch; E.W. McKenzie; Gladys Devitt; Dr. Thomas Towers; Lottie Ahrens; William Clement; F.J. Rooney.

Cast of Operetta 'BulBul', Waterloo, Ontario (no date) Waterloo Public Library Digital Collections. Available at: https://images.ourontario.ca/waterloo/47847/data?n=11 (Accessed: 26 November 2023).

Gladys — Frederick C. Ruppel. Frederick (son of George H. Ruppel and Clara F. Vogt) was born 14 Jul 1889, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1967; was buried , Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Blake Devitt
• Residence: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: 00127-7778.3

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Edward Blake Devitt married Helen J. Haskell b.Feb. 9, 1894; one son William Edson b.Dec. 20, 1919 married Sept. 26, 1944 to Louise Stewart b.Oct. 25, 1920; 4 children

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• Name: Alexander Reginald "Reginald" Devitt
• Residence: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: 00142-2329.4
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Service #751669
• Residence: 1939, Kidderminster, , Worcestershire, England

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- lived England in March 1950 (his mother's obit.)

- lived Kidderminster, England in Jan. 1939 (his father's obit.)

- lived Foley Park, Kidderminster, England in Feb. 1945 (his sisterDorothy's obit.)

Frank married Vera Edith Jacobs 19 Oct 1924, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada. Vera (daughter of Alexander Jacobs and Mary Hintz) was born 27 Apr 1905, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Mar 1983, Kidderminster, , Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Dorothy Devitt
• Name: Edith Olive Dorothy "Dorothy" McLean
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-190492
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1939, Brantford, Brant Co., Ontario, Canada

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MRS. A. C. MACLEAN

Word has been received of the sudden passing of Mrs. A C. MacLean nee Dorothy Devitt, daughter of Mrs Annie Devitt. 79 Erb St. E., Waterloo, and the late Alvah Devitt. at her home 44 Dufferin Ave., Brantford. early yesterday morning Mrs MacLean, who was 43, was an active member of Brant Ave. United Church She received her education at the Waterloo Central. School and the K-W Collegiate, and later was employed In the office of the Mutual Life Assurance Co.

Surviving are her husband and three children: E. Roos, who is attending Toronto University, and Donald and Carol at home. A little daughter, Phyllis, predeceased her 14 years ago. One sister. Mrs. Fred Ruppel of Elmira and two brothers, E. Blake Devitt of Cleveland Heights and F. Reginald Devitt of Foley Park, Kidderminster, England, also survive.

The funeral service will be held from the family residence on Sunday afternoon at 2: 30 Interment will be made in Mount Hope Cemetery, Brantford.

KW Record obit. of Fri., Feb. 23, 1945

Edith married Archibald Charles McLean 1924. Archibald was born 8 Dec 1897, Keith, , Banff, Scotland; died 12 Jun 1955, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]