Davey, Charles Steven (Chuck)

Mar 28, 1933 – Jul 16, 2012

Visitation Friday from 2-8 pm with family receiving friends from 6-8 pm at the John A Gentleman on 72nd St. Chapel. Interment Saturday 9 am Fort Calhoun Cemetery, Ft. Calhoun, NE.

Memorial Service Saturday 11 am at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 15050 West Maple Road. Chuck preferred shorts to suits – please feel welcome to dress casually, shorts if you like. Memorials to Benson High School Alumni Association Scholarship Fund.

John A. Gentleman Mortuaries, 72nd Street Chapel, 1010 North 72nd St.

402-391-1664 www.johnagentleman.com

World Herald 21 July 2012

Charles Davey

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In honor of teacher, friends urged to wear shorts.

By Sue Story Truan, World-Herald Staff Writer

Once Chuck Davey retired from a 35-year teaching career, he wore shorts year round.

In winter he would snow blow his driveway while wearing boots, a parka and shorts, said his wife, Carol, of Omaha.

“When he stopped teaching, he never wanted to wear teaching clothes again,” she said.

Charles Steven Davey, 79, will be clad in shorts and a Mickey Mouse T-shirt when he is buried today, his wife said. He died Monday at Methodist Hospital of cancer.

The family urges those who attend his 9 a.m. burial at Fort Calhoun Cemetery and 11 a.m. memorial service at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 15050 West Maple Road to wear shorts.

Davey was a member of 20-plus years of Underwood Hills Presbyterian Church, but the family moved his service to a larger church to accommodate the expected crowd.

Omaha Benson High School played a major role in Davey’s life.

He graduated from Benson in 1951; taught American government, psychology and sociology there from 1960 until 1995; and was inducted into the school’s hall of fame in 2011.

In retirement he was a docent at the Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium. He also exercised daily at the Maple Street YMCA, where he was a 180 Club member. The club is for people who exercise there at least 180 days in a year. When he told Y staff that he wouldn’t make his 180 this year, other 180 Club members donated the days he was short.

“We just cannot believe how kind people have been,” Carol Davey said.

Chuck Davey received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Omaha. He served in the Air Force from 1953 to 1957, where he developed a love of airplanes, his wife said.

Son, Robert, preceded his father in death.

Survivors, besides his wife of 58 years, include children Steve Davey of Hinsdale, Ill.; Scott Davey of Modale, Iowa; and Sandi Cook and Kurt Davey, both of Omaha; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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