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Ethel Mae <I>Clark</I> Davis

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Ethel Mae Clark Davis

Birth
Wayne County, Iowa, USA
Death
3 May 1983 (aged 90)
Chariton, Lucas County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Lucas County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
Plot
Row 15 N-S Grave 8
Memorial ID
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Wife of Henry Wilson Davis. Daughter of James Willard Clark and Helen Elizabeth Crall

OBITUARY

THE CHARITON LEADER
Chariton, Iowa
Tuesday, May 31, 1983

ETHEL DAVIS

Ethel Mae Davis, daughter of James Willard and Helen Elizabeth Crall Clark, was born March 3rd, 1893 in Wayne County, Iowa and passed away May 3rd, 1983 at the Chariton Manor where she had resided the past three years.

Ethel grew up in Oakley, Iowa and graduated from the Chariton High School. She attended the Methodist Church.

On January 30th, 1913 she married Wilson Davis in Chariton, Iowa. They moved to Holyoke, Colorado where they resided for several years. In 1918, they moved to Trenton, Nebraska where they lived until 1940.

In 1924, they took her nephew, Charles Clark, age three, into their home to raise.

They moved to Oakley, Iowa in 1940 where they farmed for a number of years before they opened a grocery store and service station there.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Wilson, her parents, and six brothers and one sister.

Survivors include her nephew Charles Clark and wife Norma of Payson, Arizona; and two great-nephews and their wives, Gene and Betty Burgett and family and Byron and Mollie Voss and family, all of Chariton. Also Willard Clark and wife of Central City, Nebraska and many other nieces, nephews and a host of friends.

Services were held at Fielding Funeral Home on May 7, with the Rev. Gene Koth presiding. Interment was at Mt. Zion Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Frank Gillaspy, Paul Sheldon, Russ Mikesell, Paul Peterson, Bill Welch and Vernard Oxenreider.

Obituary courtesy of Charles M. Wright
Wife of Henry Wilson Davis. Daughter of James Willard Clark and Helen Elizabeth Crall

OBITUARY

THE CHARITON LEADER
Chariton, Iowa
Tuesday, May 31, 1983

ETHEL DAVIS

Ethel Mae Davis, daughter of James Willard and Helen Elizabeth Crall Clark, was born March 3rd, 1893 in Wayne County, Iowa and passed away May 3rd, 1983 at the Chariton Manor where she had resided the past three years.

Ethel grew up in Oakley, Iowa and graduated from the Chariton High School. She attended the Methodist Church.

On January 30th, 1913 she married Wilson Davis in Chariton, Iowa. They moved to Holyoke, Colorado where they resided for several years. In 1918, they moved to Trenton, Nebraska where they lived until 1940.

In 1924, they took her nephew, Charles Clark, age three, into their home to raise.

They moved to Oakley, Iowa in 1940 where they farmed for a number of years before they opened a grocery store and service station there.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Wilson, her parents, and six brothers and one sister.

Survivors include her nephew Charles Clark and wife Norma of Payson, Arizona; and two great-nephews and their wives, Gene and Betty Burgett and family and Byron and Mollie Voss and family, all of Chariton. Also Willard Clark and wife of Central City, Nebraska and many other nieces, nephews and a host of friends.

Services were held at Fielding Funeral Home on May 7, with the Rev. Gene Koth presiding. Interment was at Mt. Zion Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Frank Gillaspy, Paul Sheldon, Russ Mikesell, Paul Peterson, Bill Welch and Vernard Oxenreider.

Obituary courtesy of Charles M. Wright


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  • Created by: Skip
  • Added: Nov 5, 2009
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43969547/ethel_mae-davis: accessed ), memorial page for Ethel Mae Clark Davis (3 Mar 1893–3 May 1983), Find a Grave Memorial ID 43969547, citing Mount Zion Cemetery, Lucas County, Iowa, USA; Maintained by Skip (contributor 46976613).