DAVIS, Marana Mable 1885-1988

DAVIS, DOWNS, SMITH, BEST

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 6/9/2013 at 23:33:45

[Waterloo Courier, Tuesday, January 26, 1988]

Services for Marana Mable Davis, 102, of 1430 Williston Ave., will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Parrott & Wood Funeral Home with a committal service at 2 p.m. Thursday in Lynwood Cemetery, Clarksville. She died of natural causes Saturday (Jan. 23, 1988) at her home.

She was born Dec. 9, 1885, in Butler County, near Clarksville, daughter of L. L. and Millie Smith Downs. She married J. W. Best on April 9, 1907, in Clarksville. He died in March 1939. She married Charles W. Davis on April 14, 1951, in Bellevue, Neb. He died Sept. 22, 1963.

Survivors include two nieces, a nephew and three step grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a brother, George A. Downs

Friends may call at the funeral home from 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and from 9 a.m. to services Thursday.

Memorials may be made to Chaddock Boys School, Quincy, Ill.