Nobel T. Pavey, D.D.S.
Dr. Nobel T. Pavey, member of the fimi of Pavey & Kester, dentists, with offices in the Xenia National Bank building at Xenia, was born in Leesburg, in Highland county, Ohio, January 9, 1890, son of Gilbert A. and Ida (Smith) Pavey, the latter of whom was born in that same county, in 1861, and both of whom are still living at Leesburg.
Gilbert A. Pavey was born in Fayette county, Ohio, in 1860, and grew up a practical farmer, later owning and operating a farm on the line between Fayette and Highland counties, where he lived until his retirement from the farm and removal to the neighboring village of Leesburg, where he became engaged in the undertaking business, at the same time continuing to manage his farm. He is now living practically retired, though retaining an interest fn the business in which he was long actively engaged. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he has been for years a steward in the same. They have three children, Doctor Pavey having a brother, Ernest W. Pavey, now general manager of the Oscar Leer Motor Company at Columbus, Ohio, and a sister, Geneva, wife of his partner. Dr. Alford B. Kester, of Xenia.
Reared at Leesburg. Doctor Pavey completed his public schooling in the high school of that village and then took a course in the Ohio State University, after which he entered Starling Dental College at Columbus and was graduated from that institution with the class of 1911. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Pavey came to Greene county and opened an office for the practice of his profession at Jamestown, where he remained for two years, at the end of which time he moved to Xenia. In the fall of 1915, by competitive examination, Doctor Pavey entered the government service as a dental surgeon and continued that service until the spring of 1916, when he and his brother-in-law. Dr. Alford B. Kester, who also had been in the government service as a dental surgeon, formed a partnership and resumed regular practice.
On October 10, 1911, Doctor Pavey was united in marriage to Avice Fishback, who was born on a farm in the neighboring county of Fayette, daughter of John and Ida Fishback, the latter of whom is still living, and to this union have been born two children, Paul, born on November 12, 1912, and Elizabeth Jane, October 25, 1916. Doctor and Mrs. Pavey are members of the First Methodist Episcopal church at Xenia and the Doctor is a member of the official board of the same. The Doctor is a Scottish Rite Mason, afifiliated with Xenia Lodge No. 49 and with the Valley at Dayton. During his college days the Doctor was a member of the Psi Omega fraternitv.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918