Seymour, Devon Paul

Devon Paul Seymour

St. Louisville, Ohio

Feather Location: Row N, #22

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…Long before he became a Marine, Devon's first love was dogs. "He used to cut out pictures of dogs and put them in the bathroom or in drawers, so every time his mother opened up a drawer there was a dog," Jim Seymour said of his then 5-year-old son. It wasn't long before the family got him a poodle-terrier mix that looked just like the cut-outs he had made. "He was taking swimming lessons with his sister at the YMCA. He was busy swimming, and we waited outside the Y with the puppy. His mother went inside and got Devon and he came out and saw this little ball of fur and saw that it was a puppy. He was overjoyed. He just wanted a dog. He didn't care what type it was."

As he grew older, Seymour worked hard and gave of himself. While working part-time as a teen, Seymour spotted a truck he wanted sitting on the edge of town. He bought the truck, and did the work to keep it running, his father said. "Pretty much once he got an idea in his mind, he would figure out a way to get it," his father said. "He and his sister were very independent."…

While in high school, Seymour worked and took care of the house with his mother during times when his father was away in the Army. With a father serving in the Army for more than 20 years, and four uncles in the military, Seymour had "pretty much been around military his whole life," his father said. "I'd take he and his sister to parties at the armory for Christmas," Jim Seymour said. "When I was out at post at the military school, the family would come out and spend a week with me."…

David Butler, Seymour's boss at TSC, remembered him as a jokester who was very generous. He would often say, "I ain't doing it," when asked to tend to something in the store. "Of course he would turn right around and do it," Butler said. Seymour would often buy co-workers lunch and not let them pay him back, and would buy birthday and Valentine's Day gifts. Seymour called the store last week and told Butler that he couldn't wait to get home, and that he was tired of the wind and sand. "He didn't listen to me," Butler said. "I told him he had to come back."…

Carver: Wood Bee Carvers of Norton Ohio           

Wood: Basswood