DAVIS, George

DAVIS, BASYE, LETT, SLOAN, VANDERPOOL, DOUGLAD, OTTING, IRICK, MARANVILLE, COLLINS, BRAZEAL

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner (email)
Date: 12/29/2004 at 14:09:21

George D. Davis
June 30, 1970

Services were held Friday at the Grace United Methodist Church for George D. Davis. The Rev. E. E. Basye officiated at the services with Raynor Lett and Kent Funeral Home in charge. Interment was in the Emerson cemetery.

George DeKalb Davis, son of Isaac and Rosa Sloan Davis, was born May 9, 1886 at Salt Creek, Davis County, Ia. In his youth he became a member of the Methodist Church.

On Sept, 9, 1909, he was united in marriage to Ona Mae Vanderpool, at Kansas City, Missouri. Following their marriage, the family engaged in farming, and in later years he followed the carpenter trade, until his retirement. To this family, ten children were born, nine of which survive.

The last several years he had made his home at Lakeview Manor in Glenwood, and it was there that he departed this life the morning of June 30 at the age of 84 years.

Surviving are four sons, Gerald of Milwaukee, Oregon; Clarence of Tampa, Florida; Roscoe of Sacramento, Calif; and Delbert of Portland, Ore.; five daughters, Mrs. Clystle (Peggy) Douglas of Emerson, Ia.; Mrs. Ethel Otting of McMinnville, Ore.; Mrs. Thelma Irick of Glenwood; Mrs. Hazel Maranville of North Platte, Neb.; and Mrs. Esther Collins of Glenwood. Also 28 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and one sister, Clementine Davis of Springfield, Mo.

He was preceded in death by his wife on Feb. 8, 1942, and a daughter, Edna Brazeal in 1962.