Obituary courtesy of the El Reno Tribune Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Jean M. Davis
April 16, 1930 - January 19, 2020
Jean M. Davis was born on the family farm 10 miles west of Okarche on April 16, 1930, to Barney and Iva McCabe. She died Jan. 19, 2020, at her home in Yukon, surrounded by her loving family.
Jean loved growing up on the farm, playing with her sisters and brother. She always went with her dad to thresh wheat and drive the wheat truck. She loved riding the horses, feeding the cattle and all things of the farm life.
Jean started school in a two-room country school, Mound Valley, then to Calumet, and to Sacred Heart in El Reno where she finished high school.
She met her future husband, Bill Davis at a movie theater in El Reno. They were married in 1946, and moved to Sumter, S.C., where Bill was from. They moved back to Okarche in 1947 and started their first bakery. Jean loved talking with the people who came in the bakery and knew all of their families. They also had bakeries in Kingfisher, Okeene, Thomas, Geary and El Reno.
Jean also had a bakery route in the country. She would load her van and across country she went. She was known by all the children as the βDonut Lady.β They retired from the bakery business, then built and remodeled houses in Okarche, Richland and Yukon. They worked together all their lives and both liked working with their hands and just being together.
After her husband, Bill passed away in 1991, Jean started traveling with family. She would get them in her van and βhead out.β She always wanted to drive.
One of her favorite places to go was Oregon to visit her sister, Pat and her large family.
When relatives would come to visit her, she would always take them to Cherokee Restaurant west of El Reno, then go across country to the family farm, telling all her stories. Jean was all about βfamily.β She loved the family reunions and all the get-togethers at the farm. She was very proud of the fact that the farm was designated an Oklahoma Centennial Farm in 2019. She had worked hard through the years to keep the farm in the family.
Jean was always very conservative. She did not want for material things for herself and was always willing to help anyone who needed support or financial help.
Jean was preceded in death by her husband, Bill; her parents, Barney and Iva McCabe; her sisters, Dorothy Garrison, Mildred Ahern, Odelia Baxter and Pat Ahern; and her brother, Tom McCabe.
She is survived by her boys and their families, Terry Davis of Piedmont, Larry Davis of Houston, Texas, David Davis of El Reno, Steve Davis of Piedmont and John Davis of Yukon; and all her grandchildren.
Wake service will be held at St. John Nepomuk Catholic Church in Yukon on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, at 6:30 p.m., and the funeral service will be also be held at St. John Nepomuk on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, at 10:30 a.m. Private burial will be in the Holy Trinity Cemetery in Okarche. Services are under the direction of Huber Benson Funeral Home, El Reno.
Donations in Jeanβs memory can be made to St. John Nepomuk Catholic Church Building Fund.
Jean M. Davis
April 16, 1930 - January 19, 2020
Jean M. Davis was born on the family farm 10 miles west of Okarche on April 16, 1930, to Barney and Iva McCabe. She died Jan. 19, 2020, at her home in Yukon, surrounded by her loving family.
Jean loved growing up on the farm, playing with her sisters and brother. She always went with her dad to thresh wheat and drive the wheat truck. She loved riding the horses, feeding the cattle and all things of the farm life.
Jean started school in a two-room country school, Mound Valley, then to Calumet, and to Sacred Heart in El Reno where she finished high school.
She met her future husband, Bill Davis at a movie theater in El Reno. They were married in 1946, and moved to Sumter, S.C., where Bill was from. They moved back to Okarche in 1947 and started their first bakery. Jean loved talking with the people who came in the bakery and knew all of their families. They also had bakeries in Kingfisher, Okeene, Thomas, Geary and El Reno.
Jean also had a bakery route in the country. She would load her van and across country she went. She was known by all the children as the βDonut Lady.β They retired from the bakery business, then built and remodeled houses in Okarche, Richland and Yukon. They worked together all their lives and both liked working with their hands and just being together.
After her husband, Bill passed away in 1991, Jean started traveling with family. She would get them in her van and βhead out.β She always wanted to drive.
One of her favorite places to go was Oregon to visit her sister, Pat and her large family.
When relatives would come to visit her, she would always take them to Cherokee Restaurant west of El Reno, then go across country to the family farm, telling all her stories. Jean was all about βfamily.β She loved the family reunions and all the get-togethers at the farm. She was very proud of the fact that the farm was designated an Oklahoma Centennial Farm in 2019. She had worked hard through the years to keep the farm in the family.
Jean was always very conservative. She did not want for material things for herself and was always willing to help anyone who needed support or financial help.
Jean was preceded in death by her husband, Bill; her parents, Barney and Iva McCabe; her sisters, Dorothy Garrison, Mildred Ahern, Odelia Baxter and Pat Ahern; and her brother, Tom McCabe.
She is survived by her boys and their families, Terry Davis of Piedmont, Larry Davis of Houston, Texas, David Davis of El Reno, Steve Davis of Piedmont and John Davis of Yukon; and all her grandchildren.
Wake service will be held at St. John Nepomuk Catholic Church in Yukon on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, at 6:30 p.m., and the funeral service will be also be held at St. John Nepomuk on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, at 10:30 a.m. Private burial will be in the Holy Trinity Cemetery in Okarche. Services are under the direction of Huber Benson Funeral Home, El Reno.
Donations in Jeanβs memory can be made to St. John Nepomuk Catholic Church Building Fund.
Obituary courtesy of the El Reno Tribune Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Jean M. Davis
April 16, 1930 - January 19, 2020
Jean M. Davis was born on the family farm 10 miles west of Okarche on April 16, 1930, to Barney and Iva McCabe. She died Jan. 19, 2020, at her home in Yukon, surrounded by her loving family.
Jean loved growing up on the farm, playing with her sisters and brother. She always went with her dad to thresh wheat and drive the wheat truck. She loved riding the horses, feeding the cattle and all things of the farm life.
Jean started school in a two-room country school, Mound Valley, then to Calumet, and to Sacred Heart in El Reno where she finished high school.
She met her future husband, Bill Davis at a movie theater in El Reno. They were married in 1946, and moved to Sumter, S.C., where Bill was from. They moved back to Okarche in 1947 and started their first bakery. Jean loved talking with the people who came in the bakery and knew all of their families. They also had bakeries in Kingfisher, Okeene, Thomas, Geary and El Reno.
Jean also had a bakery route in the country. She would load her van and across country she went. She was known by all the children as the βDonut Lady.β They retired from the bakery business, then built and remodeled houses in Okarche, Richland and Yukon. They worked together all their lives and both liked working with their hands and just being together.
After her husband, Bill passed away in 1991, Jean started traveling with family. She would get them in her van and βhead out.β She always wanted to drive.
One of her favorite places to go was Oregon to visit her sister, Pat and her large family.
When relatives would come to visit her, she would always take them to Cherokee Restaurant west of El Reno, then go across country to the family farm, telling all her stories. Jean was all about βfamily.β She loved the family reunions and all the get-togethers at the farm. She was very proud of the fact that the farm was designated an Oklahoma Centennial Farm in 2019. She had worked hard through the years to keep the farm in the family.
Jean was always very conservative. She did not want for material things for herself and was always willing to help anyone who needed support or financial help.
Jean was preceded in death by her husband, Bill; her parents, Barney and Iva McCabe; her sisters, Dorothy Garrison, Mildred Ahern, Odelia Baxter and Pat Ahern; and her brother, Tom McCabe.
She is survived by her boys and their families, Terry Davis of Piedmont, Larry Davis of Houston, Texas, David Davis of El Reno, Steve Davis of Piedmont and John Davis of Yukon; and all her grandchildren.
Wake service will be held at St. John Nepomuk Catholic Church in Yukon on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, at 6:30 p.m., and the funeral service will be also be held at St. John Nepomuk on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, at 10:30 a.m. Private burial will be in the Holy Trinity Cemetery in Okarche. Services are under the direction of Huber Benson Funeral Home, El Reno.
Donations in Jeanβs memory can be made to St. John Nepomuk Catholic Church Building Fund.
Jean M. Davis
April 16, 1930 - January 19, 2020
Jean M. Davis was born on the family farm 10 miles west of Okarche on April 16, 1930, to Barney and Iva McCabe. She died Jan. 19, 2020, at her home in Yukon, surrounded by her loving family.
Jean loved growing up on the farm, playing with her sisters and brother. She always went with her dad to thresh wheat and drive the wheat truck. She loved riding the horses, feeding the cattle and all things of the farm life.
Jean started school in a two-room country school, Mound Valley, then to Calumet, and to Sacred Heart in El Reno where she finished high school.
She met her future husband, Bill Davis at a movie theater in El Reno. They were married in 1946, and moved to Sumter, S.C., where Bill was from. They moved back to Okarche in 1947 and started their first bakery. Jean loved talking with the people who came in the bakery and knew all of their families. They also had bakeries in Kingfisher, Okeene, Thomas, Geary and El Reno.
Jean also had a bakery route in the country. She would load her van and across country she went. She was known by all the children as the βDonut Lady.β They retired from the bakery business, then built and remodeled houses in Okarche, Richland and Yukon. They worked together all their lives and both liked working with their hands and just being together.
After her husband, Bill passed away in 1991, Jean started traveling with family. She would get them in her van and βhead out.β She always wanted to drive.
One of her favorite places to go was Oregon to visit her sister, Pat and her large family.
When relatives would come to visit her, she would always take them to Cherokee Restaurant west of El Reno, then go across country to the family farm, telling all her stories. Jean was all about βfamily.β She loved the family reunions and all the get-togethers at the farm. She was very proud of the fact that the farm was designated an Oklahoma Centennial Farm in 2019. She had worked hard through the years to keep the farm in the family.
Jean was always very conservative. She did not want for material things for herself and was always willing to help anyone who needed support or financial help.
Jean was preceded in death by her husband, Bill; her parents, Barney and Iva McCabe; her sisters, Dorothy Garrison, Mildred Ahern, Odelia Baxter and Pat Ahern; and her brother, Tom McCabe.
She is survived by her boys and their families, Terry Davis of Piedmont, Larry Davis of Houston, Texas, David Davis of El Reno, Steve Davis of Piedmont and John Davis of Yukon; and all her grandchildren.
Wake service will be held at St. John Nepomuk Catholic Church in Yukon on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, at 6:30 p.m., and the funeral service will be also be held at St. John Nepomuk on Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, at 10:30 a.m. Private burial will be in the Holy Trinity Cemetery in Okarche. Services are under the direction of Huber Benson Funeral Home, El Reno.
Donations in Jeanβs memory can be made to St. John Nepomuk Catholic Church Building Fund.
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