Obituary - Raymond R. Nevin

Monday, December 21, 1998
THE JUNEAU EMPIRE

Former longtime Juneau resident Raymond Robert Nevin died Dec. 6, 1998, in Vancouver, Wash. He was 78.

He was born July 21, 1920, in Shelby, Mont. He lived in Juneau for 51 years, and worked as an administrator for the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife. He did volunteer work for the City of Juneau. He was a member of the First Church of God in Vancouver.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Eunice Hansen, in 1992, and his second wife Vernie in March 1998.

He is survived by his daughter Kathleen Brouhard of Vancouver, Wash., sons Timothy Nevin of Milwaukee, Ore., and David Nevin of Vancouver, sister Elaine Keeney of Seattle, and brother McCoy Nevin of Portland; also 10 grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Memorial services will be held in January.

Sunday, December 27, 1998
THE JUNEAU EMPIRE
Raymond R. Nevin

Former longtime Juneau resident Raymond R. Nevin died Dec. 6, 1998, in Vancouver, Wash. He was 78.

He was born July 20, 1920, in Montana, and went to school in Rice Lake, Wis. He came to Juneau in 1941 and worked for the Alaska-Juneau Mine. Following the closure of the mine, he worked for the federal Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service.

He married Eunice Hansen Dec. 4, 1941, in Juneau, where they lived until 1992. Although they had no children of their own, friends write that they helped raise several generations of Juneau kids, who loved visiting them at the Nevin beach house near Point Louisa. The couple also taught dance lessons for a number of years.

His interests included photography, music as a member of the Saint Paul Singers, hunting and fishing. He was one of five people to fish in all of the first 45 Golden North Salmon Derbies. After taking an early retirement, the couple traveled extensively. In retirement, he loved being on the sea and was a deckhand for several of his commercial fishing friends.

After the death of his first wife in 1992, he later married Vernie Nevin and moved to Vancouver for medical and family reasons. His last visit to Juneau was last summer, and although he was wheelchair bound, he visited more than 50 friends in one week.

He was preceded in death by his wife Vernie. He is survived by her children, Kathleen Brouhard and David Nevin of Vancouver, Wash., Timothy Nevin of Milwaukee, Ore., 10 grandchildren and one great grandchild; his sister Elaine Keeney of Seattle, and brother McCoy Nevin of Portland, Ore; also nieces and nephews and godchildren. Friends write he is also survived by dozens of Nevin ``beach kids'' who thought of Nevin as a special kind of dad.

A Juneau memorial service will be held 3 p.m. Jan. 17, 1999, at Resurrection Lutheran Church, at 10th and Glacier Highway.