MRS. DEVEAUX DEATH VICTIM

Defiance Woman's Funeral Will Be Conducted Saturday Mrs. Mary Elmira DeVeaux,79, widow of Isaac J. DeVeaux and former operator for 30 years of the Wayne Inn in Defiance, died Wednesday at 7 pm in Tiffin tp. Mrs. DeVeaux had been in failing health for sometime but bedfast only a few days because of infirmities of age. She dislocated a shoulder when she fell at Eastertime. The body is at the Morris Mortuary here where it will remain until services Saturday at 930 am in St. Mary's Catholic church. Rev. Gerald F. Connolly will officiate and burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. Mrs. DeVeaux was born in Ottawa on June 24, 1868 a daughter of the late Richard and Julia Cavanaugh Caton. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Goldie Mertz, Defiance, two brothers James Caton, Ottawa and Phillip Caton, McComb and a sister Mrs. Harley Hale, Florida, Ohio. Her husband died Jan. 1, 1926 and her son, Donald, Dec. 14, 1945. Members of St. Mary's Altar Society will say the Rosary at the mortuary Friday at 815 pm.