Hannah Elizabeth (Twining) Davis (1954)

DAVIS, TWINING, POST, SHELLBERG, OGLESBEE, JONES, WRIGHT

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 8/2/2007 at 19:47:07

Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
September 22, 1954

MRS. JOHN M. DAVIS BURIED AT GRISWOLD

Resident of This Community for 48 Years Died Last Friday

Mrs. John M. Davis, a resident of this community for 48 years, died at her home in Winterset, Friday, Sept. 17, at the age of 79 years.

Mrs. Davis was born at Griswold on Feb. 14, 1875. She was the former Hannah Elizabeth Twining, daughter of John and Margaret Twining. She was married at Griswold on Feb. 26, 1896 to John M. Davis. They moved to Winterset 48 years ago.

She is survived by her husband; four children, Dall E. Davis of Griswold, Mrs. William Post and Frank J. Davis of Winterset, and Mrs. John Shellberg of Elliott; 12 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. She also leaves three sisters, Mrs. Salie Oglesbee of Winterset, Mrs. Mamie Jones of LaMar, Colo., and Mrs. Ada Wright of Lewis, Kan.

Funeral services were held Sunday from the Wagler Funeral home in Griswold conducted by the Rev. Theodore Guetzlaff, pastor of the St. Paul's Lutheran church in Winterset. Burial was made at Griswold.