Ethel Davis (1911-2008)

DAVIS, BURLEY, ZIEGLER, VERVERS, HENDERSON, GROOMES

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 4/29/2008 at 14:52:54

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Tuesday, April 29, 2008.

July 26, 1911-April 27, 2008

Ethel Davis, 96, of Nevada, died Sunday, April 27, at Story County Long Term Care in Nevada. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 2, at Memorial Lutheran Church in Nevada. Burial will be in Nevada Municipal Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m., with the family present from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, May 1, at Bacon Funeral Home in Nevada.

Ethel Davis was born July 26, 1911, in Nevada, the daughter of Albert and Amelia Ziegler Burley. She graduated from Milford High School. She married Floyd E. Davis Jan. 1, 1934, on a farm north of Nevada. He died May 26, 1998. She had helped her husband for more than 50 years on their farm near Nevada. She was a member of the Memorial Lutheran Church in Nevada. She enjoyed crocheting, flowers and kids.

She is survived by two sisters, Alyce Ververs, of Phoenix, and Betty Henderson, of Story City; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; five brothers, Virgil, Albert, Joseph, Lowell and Marvin; and one sister, Esther Groomes.

Memorials may be made to Heartland Senior Services, of Ames.

Bacon Funeral Home and Crematory is in charge of arrangements.

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