Obit: Dewey, Anson Cyrus (1880 - 1936)

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Surnames: DEWEY TYLER KENNER DISSOTELL


----Source: Greenwood Gleaner 4/30/1936

 


OBITUARY OF ANSON CYRUS DEWEY


Anson Cyrus Dewey was born Nov. 17, 1880 in Clark County, Wis., and passed away April 14, 1936 at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, after an illness of two months.


He was the son of Cyrus W. Dewey and Emma Theresa Tyler. Mr. Dewey passed away in 1921 and Mrs. Dewey in 1925. A sister Elsie, died in infancy.


Anson Dewey attended Greenwood High School and the Northwestern School of Pharmacy in Chicago. After graduating, he operated a drug store for three years in Spokane, Wash., coming back to Wisconsin in 1913. He spent two years at Virginia, Minn., with the Edward Hines Lumber Co. Mills, later representing the company in the sales department at Aurora, Ill., and as district sales manager in Detroit, Mich.


The past eight years he has been Chicago representative of the Shevlin River Sales Company.


He is survived by his wife, Garner Kenner Dewey, to whom he was married Sept. 1, 1917. A daughter Arlene Dewey Dissotell, and a grandson, Dewey Dissotell of Seattle, Wash.


Services were held April 15 at 11 o'clock a.m. at the Postlewait Chapel at Oak Park, Ill., Rev. F. W. Etterbein officiating. Mr. Dewey was well known in lumber circles and this service was largely attended by his Chicago business associates and friends.


The body was brought to Eau Claire on the 400 , accompanied by the widow, her mother, Mrs. Geo. S. Carr, of Aurora, Ill., and A. F. Boyd, representing the Shevlin River Sales Company. Mr. and Mrs. Crosby Shevlin came from Minneapolis to attend the services, which were held at Neillsville, April 16 at 2:00 p.m. at the Lowe Funeral Parlors, Rev. Longenecker officiating. Interment was made in the family lot at the Neillsville Cemetery.

 

 

 


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