ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, August 23, 1996 TAG: 9608230058
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: DUBLIN
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
Thursday, hundreds of people were visiting the family of Harry Steve DeHaven, 47, who died Tuesday night in Carilion Radford Community Hospital. Practically every one of them had a "Harry" story.
There was the time DeHaven, who had been the Pulaski County school system's director of operations for the past five years, paid for a pickup truck for a man who was going through some tough times, and never said anything about it.
"There are just thousands of stories like that about Harry," said Bill Asbury, superintendent of the Pulaski County school system where DeHaven worked for 26 years. "This giant of a man was one of the biggest humanitarians you'll ever run into."
DeHaven's job covered everything from building and vehicle maintenance to transportation. A Radford native, DeHaven graduated from Virginia Tech in 1970 and joined the Pulaski County school system the same year as a teacher at the old Dublin High School. With the opening of Pulaski County High School in 1974, he taught there until becoming transportation supervisor in 1980.
DeHaven was a commissioner for the New River Valley Juvenile Detention Home, served on the American Red Cross and New River Valley VASAP boards.
Survivors include his wife, Rebecca; two daughters, Emily Rosson, Barboursville, and Ellen Joanna DeHaven, Charlottesville; a sister, Mary Ella DeHaven, Newport News; and a grandson, Andrew Douglas Rosson.
The family will receive friends at 7 p.m. tonight at Dublin United Methodist Church, where DeHaven was a member. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the church, with burial in the family cemetery in Hillsville. The Bower Funeral Chapel is handling arrangements.
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