Obit of Russell (Tarzan) Davis (d120) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Wanda Purcell   <wpurc25758@aol.com>  6 Aug 2002
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Services for Russell (Tarzan) Davis, 64, of 205 Denver St., were held 
in the Lemons Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Stanley Nixon, pastor of 
Parkview Baptist Church, officiating.  Burial was in Plainview Cemetery 
directed by Lemons Funeral Home.

Mr. Davis was dead on arrival at a Plainview hospital at 12:50 Sunday 
of an apparent heart seizure.

A native of Hammons, Oklahoma, he was born Mary 24, 1912.  He had done 
pipeline work with H.C. Price out of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and for 21 
years was with Beutler Brothers Rodeo touring in New Mexico, Oklahoma, 
Kansas and Texas.

Mr. Davis a resident of Lawton, Oklahoma, 20 years, operated All Sign 
Co. there and Medicine Park awhile, he had been with a number of carnivals 
in the southwest and he and his wife had operated three of their own.  
Mr. Davis moved to Plainview 15 years ago from Lawton, Oklahoma and 
operated Luna Amusement Park and was owner of Cactus Signs in Plainview.

Mr. Davis and the former Lotteva Wagner were married May 21, 1941, in 
Eldorado, Kansas.  He was a member of the Baptist Church and a veteran 
of World War II.

Surviving are his wife, and a nephew, Dale Hiatt of Hammons, Oklahoma.

Russell E. (Tarzan) Davis was the son of Leona May and Joe Davis of 
Hammons and Cheyenne, Oklahoma.  His mother was a Smallwood.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, Ok