Ulysses "Grant" NEVITT

Enid News and Eagle Enid, Garfield Co., OK

12-07-2008

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

A memorial service for U. Grant Nevitt, age 81, of Enid, will be 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 8, 2008, at First United Methodist Church. Rev. David Wiggs will officiate. Burial will follow in the Memorial Park Cemetery under direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home

He was born May 25, 1927, in Clarksdale, Missouri, in a railroad section house to Ivan and Velma Welsh Nevitt and died Thursday evening, Dec. 4, 2008, at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center.

Grant attended school in Clarksdale and Clio, Iowa, and was a graduate of Trenton High School in Trenton, Missouri, in 1945. Following his graduation, he enlisted in the United States Navy on May 25, 1945. He served in the Pacific Fleet on an LST. During his tour of duty, Grant married Mary Nell Peery on July 9, 1946, in a small Naval chapel on Treasure Island, California. After his discharge in 1946, they moved back to Trenton, where he went to work for Peery Electric as an electrician until 1951. He worked for the Rock Island Railroad until retiring in 1974 as a roadmaster. After his retirement, Grant did home improvement for Standard Builders. He enjoyed traveling in their RV with the Thunderbird Camping Club. He was a member of First United Methodist Church, Enid, the Sooner Sunday school class and Moose Lodge 1740

He is survived by his wife, Mary Nell; children, Nancy Silva and her husband, John of Granbury, Texas, Carolyn Allen and her husband, Don of Hominy, and Stanley Nevitt and his wife, Barbara of Enid; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren; two sisters, Vivian Karns of Nixa, Missouri, and Ruth Schmitt and her husband, Larry of Rushville, Missouri, and brother-in-law, John Peery of St. Peters, Missouri.

Grant was preceded in death by his parents and a brother-in-law, Gene Karns.