Extracted from The Bonners Ferry Herald (Bonners Ferry, ID)
Ruth Davy, 97
On Thursday evening, Dec. 21, 2006, Ruth Davy passed away at her home north
of Bonners Ferry of cancer-related complications. Funeral service will be held
on Saturday, Dec. 30, 2006 at 11 a.m. at Crossroads Chapel with private
interment in the Grandview Cemetery.
Born in Hall County, Texas to Minnie and
Ira Ware on March 22, 1909. Our beloved Grandma D will be sorely missed by
numerous friends and family. Ruth was preceded in death by Wade, her husband of
60 years and sons Gary and William Davy. Sisters, Jessie Ware, Elsie Wilson &
Mary Thompson and brothers, G. Buren, Leo, Robert and Harley Ware also preceded
her in death.
She is survived by her sister, Lucile Hughes of Redding, Calif., son Kenneth,
daughters Norma Greenslate, Judith Davy, Frank and Linda Davy, nieces Lois
Phillips, Lucinda Ware & Norma Ashley, and nephew Robert Ware. Additional
surviving family includes seventeen grandchildren (Russell, Brian, Keith, Kevin
and Martin Davy; Steven David & Jon Greenslate; Edward, Evan & Jamie Frank;
Cathrine Lemaire, Ronda Carlyon , Kristi Johnson, Tracy Tonini, Erica Johnston &
William Bass), sixteen great-grandchildren (Lyle, Jeremy, Christopher, Nicholas,
Andre, Wade & Amber Davy; Sidney & Ghena Greenslate; Robert, Alan & Laura Cook;
Kayleigh, Kendal & Kolbi Tonini and Trinity Johnston) and one
great-great-granddaughter, Alexis Rachelle Davy.
Ruth retired from the Forest Service (Red Ives Ranger Station) in 1984 to
care for her husband. She had served as the resource clerk for six years.
Prior to that she was District Clerk and a relief lookout for the Georgetown
District on the Eldorado National Forest in California from 1961 to 1977.
The Forest Service was a third career for Ruth who had begun her working life
after completing a Secretarial course in Sacrament, Calif. At Heald's Business
College in 1928. Early temporary positions included clerk-stenographer roles
with the Sacramento Lumber Company and the Butte Conty Superintendent of
Schools.
She was working at the First National Bank of Oroville when she met
and subsequently married Wade Davy on Aug. 28, 1930. When the children began
arriving, Ruth turned her attention to raising the family although the
circumstances of the Great Depression caused her to seek employment with the
Oroville Title Company and the District Attorneys office at times to supplement
the family income. Later, when the family had moved to Georgetown, Calif., she
served as the bookkeeper for the family logging business and as clerk of the
Georgetown Divide Elementary School Board.
Ruth always loved working with young
people and was the director of the youth group for the Methodist church in
Georgetown for many years. She was forever young at heart and believed in
always learning new things She will be remembered as a great encourager of the
young.
Thursday, December 28, 2006