Marriage of Parents: Manly Bevens & Mattie L. Funk md 26 Nov 1899, Polk co, Oregon

Parents are buried in Dallas Cemetery

1910 OR CENSUS - Homer D. Bevens, age 7, b. Oregon, is enumerated with Manly W., age 31, occupation farm laborer, b. Oregon, and his wife of 10 years, Martha S., age 30, mother of 3, b. Oregon, along with Agnes C., age 9, b. Oregon, and Harold C., age 1, b. Oregon.
1920 OR CENSUS - Homer D. Bevens, age 16, occupation ice cream parlor dispenser, b. Oregon, is enumerated with Manly, age 48, occupation laborer, b. Oregon, and Mattie L., age 40, b. Oregon, along with Agnes O., age 18, occupation hotle waitress, b. Oregon, Harold C., age 11, b. Oregon, and Letha May, age 9, b. Oregon.

 MARRIAGE – Homer D. Bevens & Esther Amelia Anderson md 8 June 1924, Polk Co, Oregon
1930 OR CENSUS - Homer D. Bevens, age 27, occupation tanner, b. Oregon, is enumerated with wife Esther A., age 26, b. South Dakota, along with Eldon E., age 5, b. Oregon, and Nelda B., age 2 yrs 7 ms, b. Oregon.

1940 OR CENSUS – Homer D. Bevens (37y, b Oregon, occupation tanner)  enumerated with wife Esther A. (36y, b South Dakota) and 3 children, Eldon E. (15y, b Oregon), Nelda B. (12y, b Oregon) and Stanley W. (1y, b Oregon); family was living in same place in 1935

Homer Dale Bevens, 81, of 568 SW Levens St, Dallas, died Nov 1 at Polk Community Hospital. He was born near Airlie, on Sept 24, 1902, the son of Manley and Mattie Bevens. He was a long-time resident of Dallas and employed as a foreman and stockholder of Muir and McDonald Tannery for 53 years. He was preceded in death by his wife, Esther, on Sept 17, 1982; two sisters, Agnes and Letha, and one brother, Harold. Surviving are one daughter, Nelda Kingsbury of Corvallis; two sons, Eldon of Dallas and Stanley of Torrance, Calif, along with nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Services were Nov 4 at Bollman Funeral Home with Rev Rich Latta of the First Presbyterian Church of Dallas officiating. Burial was in Womer Cemetery, Pedee. Contributions in his memory can be given to the Dallas Ambulance Service in care of the funeral home.

Itemizer Observer, Wednesday, November 9, 1983

Bevens
Homer D. 
1902 - 1983
[shares marker with Esther]

Saucy Survey & Photographs
ODI 

Polk Co, Oregon Marriage Records, Vol 5

1910 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Luckiamute, ED 244, sheet 2A)
1920 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Dallas, ED 382, sheet 5A)
Oregon Marriage Index

1930 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Dallas, ED 40, sheet 4B)

1940 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Dallas, ED 27-6, sheet 7B)

IO, 9 Nov 1983