Dr. Edward J. DeVillez

The DeVillez family: I read the news in the latest Miami U alumni magazine and I are very sorry to hear of Dr. DeVillez's passing. I worked in his lab as an undergraduate student investigating anaerobic enzymes on his favorite nereid worms. I went to Woods Hole (Buzzards Bay) one summer when he taught a marine invertebrate zoology course there (and where I met my husband). He allowed me to drive the van with the equipment there so I could afford to go. And of course I took several of his...

I was blessed to have Dr. DeVillez as my mentor in grad school. I looked up to him as a Christian, a teacher and a scientist.

Accept my condolences on the loss of "Dr. Ed" and my prayers and thoughts are with you all at this time. I received a phone call one evening about 6 years ago from Dr. Ed who called me after I left my name and contact information in the guest book at St. Augustine Church in Leopold, Indiana. That call started a genealogy exchange and I recall directing Ed to Henry DeVillez's gravesite behind the church in Leopold. He then he arranged for the government marker to be added. I enjoyed a trip...

We are sorry to learn of Ed's death. He was a gentle man and will surely be missed by those who knew him. We extend our sympathies to the Devillez family.

Marian and Mike Smithson
Glen Carbon, Illinois (near St. Louis)

Dear Mary Jo and Family,
We were sad to learn of Ed's death. Though he may be gone, he will be long remembered for his integrity, helpfulness, and great sense of humor. He was a wonderful colleague and a great friend.

I am very sorry to hear of Ed's death. I met him only last year at the DeVillez family reunion in Leopold, Indiana and it truly was like meeting a family member for the first time. It was clear Ed was an educator because of the look of enjoyment he had each time he amazed us with our shared ancestry facts. I'm sorry I did not meet him sooner but I am sure glad that I did.

To The Devillez family,
What a wonderful, wonderful human being who will be dearly missed by so many. I got to know Ed back in the late 70's when we shared a car to teach on the Middletown campus in the evening. Ed's sense of humor was contagious--I was a young assistant professor at the time and Ed had such a fine way of making me so comfortable. Ed was truly a modest individual who mentored those around him by example.

In later years Ed and I would run into each other at the rec...

1 Corinthians 13:12
Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day; for our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far...