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 1884 - 1947 (63 years)
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| Name |
George Eves |
| Born |
22 Jan 1884 |
Millville, Columbia County, Pennsylvania  |
- son of Chandlee Eves & Mary Jane Shannon
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| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
30 Dec 1947 |
Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
| Buried |
03 Jan 1948 |
Aulenbach Cemetery, Mount Penn, Berks County, Pennsylvania |
| Person ID |
I039250 |
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| Last Modified |
15 Nov 2014 |
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| Sources |
- [S2] Reading Eagle, p. 5, 31 Dec 1947.
Funeral arrangements were being completed today for George Eves, 63, Reading attorney and former president of the Berks County Bar Association, who died in Community General Hospital at 6 o'clock last night after suffering a heart attack on the street.
He had left his office at 530 Washington St., and was walking through Church Street on his way to the Wyomissing Club, when he suffered a heart attack and collapsed.
Charles S. Wade and Raymond McDevitt, city policemen who were nearby, called the Jr. Fire Company ambulance and took him to the hospital.
His physician, Dr. Malcolm Z. Gaerhart gave emergency treatment. Eves had been under the doctor's care for some time, and had curtailed a number of activities because of his condition. Much of his time was devoted to his duties as solicitor for the Reading School District.
CAME HERE IN 1912
Eves resided at 1208 Hessian RD. He was a native of Millville, Columbia County, and came to Reading in 1912 as a teacher of language in Reading Boys High School. Prior to that, he had been a teacher in George School, a private school in Phiadelphia. He studied law in the office of the late William Kerper Stevens in Reading and at the University of Michigan, where he was graduated in 1908 and where he was a teacher for a short period.
A democrat, he succeeded the late Earle I. Koch as Reading School District Solicitor, being elected to the post in 1921. He held the position at his death.
He also was solicitor for town council bodies and school boards in a number of Berks boroughs and townships.
WORLD WAR ACTIVITIES
He had been active in the Chamber of Commerce for a time and served as secretery of its Americanization Committee.
During World Wars I and II he served as a legal advisor in the selective service set-up.
He was a 33rd degree Mason, a past commander-in-chief of Reading Consistory, and held membership in various masonic groups. In 1937 he was elected president of the bar association. He was a member of the Society of Friends.
Eves was married three times, his first wife Rowena (Hartman), and his second wife Ellen Fleck), having preceded him in death. Surviving are his third wife Ruth (Moyer); a son of his first marriage, Attorney, George R. Eves, of Penside; one sister, Edith, wife of John W. Biddle, of Millville. T. C. Auman Inc., have charge of funeral arrangements.
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