Extracted from The Spokesman-Review and Spokane Chronicle (Spokane, WA)
Tuesday, April 16, 1991

Wade Davy

Service for Wade Davy, 87, will be at 10 a.m. today at the Bonners Ferry Funeral Home Chapel in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

Mr. Davy, who died Friday, was born in Ohio and worked for the Hoover Co. manufacturing harnesses for the cavalry during World War I.

In the mid-1920s, he moved to California and farmed and worked on a gold dredge until 1939. He then worked in road construction and later purchased a Caterpillar tractor and went into business for himself. He built roads, logged, worked on fire lines and worked in construction until retiring in 1977 and moving to St. Maries. He lived there for seven years before moving to Bonners Ferry.

Mr. Davy and his wife celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in August.

Survivors include his wife, Ruth, at the home near Bonners Ferry; two sons, Kenneth Davy of Bonners Ferry and William Davy of Oroville, Calif.; three daughters, Norma Greenslate and Linda Bass, both of Portland, and Judith Frank of Post Falls, Idaho; 17 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.