Davis, Mary Elizabeth McFarland (1867-1942)

DAVIS, MCFARLAND, TOPPENBERG, DICK, MANLY, WHALEN, AMUNDSON, JOHNSON

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Date: 4/13/2017 at 17:36:38

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Friday, March 20, 1942

DEATH TAKES MRS. C. DAVIS

Stanhope Woman Will Be Buried Sunday Afternoon at 2:30

Mrs. Charles Davis, of Stanhope, 75, died about 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Farnham nursing home here, where she had been a patient for about one week and a half. Death was caused by complications following a stroke of paralysis. She had been in failing health for more than a year and seriously ill for about three months.

Funeral services will be Sunday at 2:30 p.m. from the Stanhope Methodist church. A short service at the Roy Davis home at 2 o'clock will precede the church services. The Rev. B.L. Weaver, of Kamrar, and the Rev. C.F. Schmidt, of Stanhope, will officiate. Burial will be made in Lawn Hill cemetery at Stanhope, with Foster's in charge.

Mary Elizabeth McFarland was born Feb. 1, 1867 on a farm near Harmony Center, southwest of Kamrar. There she attended rural schools and grew to young womanhood. March 13, 1887, she was united in marriage to Charles Davis.

They made their home in that community until 1892 when they moved to a farm northeast of Stanhope. Mrs. Davis resided there 45 years, until she retired and moved into Stanhope. Mr. Davis died May 13, 1929. Her parents and three brothers and one sister also preceded her in death.

Mrs. Davis is survived by six sons and five daughters. The sons are Roy, Frank, Furman and Charles, jr., all of Stanhope, and Earl, of Jewell; Clair, of Webster City. Her daughters are Mrs. Chris Toppenberg, of Jewell; Mrs. Leo Dick, of Oakland, Iowa; Mrs. Chester Manly, of Omaha; Mrs. Edgar Whalen, of Stanhope; Mrs. R.G. Amundson, of Radcliffe.

One sister, Mrs. Ernest Johnson lives at Spencer. There are 22 grandchildren and 1 great granddaughter in the family.

Mrs. Davis was baptized in the Christian faith as a girl and was a member of the Methodist church at Stanhope as long as her health permitted. She was well-known and greatly loved in the Stanhope and Kamrar communities as a good mother and a kind neighbor and friend.