Dona G Davis 1931-2009

DAVIS BLOWERS GRAY

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 1/1/2010 at 02:06:13

Sioux City Journal
21 Oct 2009

TURIN, Iowa -- Dona G. Davis, 78, of Turin passed away Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at Burgess Health Center in Onawa, Iowa.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Turin United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Angela Gafford Asmus officiating. Burial will be in Kennebec Cemetery, Castana, Iowa. Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, with a prayer service at 6:30 p.m. followed by an Order of the Eastern Star service, at Rush Family Care Service in Onawa.

Dona was born May 3, 1931, in Onawa, the daughter of Adam Rufus and Gertrude (Blowers) Gray. She was raised in Onawa, where she was baptized at First Christian Church. She graduated from Onawa High School in 1949. During school, she worked in Lupton Drug Store and J.L. Furniture. She later was a secretary at Green Gables prefab building.

She and Gerald Davis were united in marriage on Feb. 18, 1951, at First Christian Church in Onawa. The couple made their home in Turin and were blessed with a daughter, Janet. She worked many years in the Dime Store and 11 years in a ladies' apparel store, both in Onawa. She retired in 1999, when the store closed. Gerald passed away Sept. 12, 2002.

She had been a member of Turin United Methodist Church since 1951. She also was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star Queen Esther since 1962. She was very active in OES, having served as Worthy Matron in 1969, Grand Representative, past secretary of Hawkeye Links, past grand chapter committee member, past project chairman and president of Queen Esther Past Matrons Club.

Survivors include a daughter and her husband, Janet and Roy Wakehouse of Onawa; two granddaughters and their husbands, Christina and Keith Timm of Frederick, Colo., and Cherlynn and Tylor Belshe of Commerce City, Colo.; two great-grandsons, Blaine Belshe and Kaiden Timm; three sisters, Jean Christianson of La Junta, Colo., Ruth Brown of Dallas Center, Iowa, and Vernice Wolfe of Virginia Beach, Va.; and many nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband, she was also preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Milo in infancy; and six sisters, Pearl in infancy, Hazel Merkely, Mable Framke, Ferne Kinion, Ida Fox and Edna Benson.