Obit of Davis, Callie Clark - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 05 Nov 2006 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== ::Cheyenne Cemetery--Cheyenne OK Surnames: Davis, Clar, Cochran, Hullum, Boren Originally posted at: http:\\boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/6939 Funeral services for Mrs. Guy Davis will be held at the Church of Christ in Cheyenne, Thursday afternoon, May 24, 1951 at 2:30 o'clock. Albert Trent, minister of Sentinel, Oklahoma and W.D. Stewart, Jr., minister, of Cheyenne will have charge of the services at the church. Committal will be in the Cheyenne cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. Mrs. Davis died at her home in Cheyenne early Tuesday morning following a serious illness of about two months. Althourh Mrs. Davis had been ill her condition was not considered serious until about the first of April when she went to Oklahoma City for medical examination. There it was found she was suffering from cancer which had already entered the lungs and attending physicians announced that she could not live. Her son, Dr. Guy Clark Davis, who is a physician and surgeon at Atlanta, Georgia, was called to Oklahoma City, who, after making a study of the X-rays, agreed with the specialists in the diagnosis. Her condition became critical last Saturday and she gradually grew weaker until the end came. Following the diagnosis Mrs. Davis returned to her home in Cheyenne. Her daughter, Mrs. A.B. Cochran, came from her home in Louisiana and stayed with her mother continuously during the last six weeks of her life. Mrs. Davis faced the reality with great calmness. She continued her normal course in life, receiving visits, messages and gifts from friends and relatives with gratitude. During the six-weeks of time preceding her death, her life was a great blessing to all with whom she came in contract. She was a wonderfull exemplification of the passing of a great Christian from life. Mrs. Davis was among the most active residents of Cheyenne. In the Church of Christ she was a teacher in the Bible school; in the Order of Eastern Star she had held all of the offices of the local Chapter ande had served as District Deputy President for the district, and was Grand Representative to Scotland, in thed Platonic Club she had held all offices and served as parliamentary in the Fourth District, office she voluntary gave up; in the Auxilliary to the Campbnell Cross post of the American Lgion she had held all the offices and was chaplain at the time of her death; she had also held the various offices in Roger Mills County Auxiliatry to Rural Mail carriers. Mrs. Davis was active in the work of the Red Cross and during World War II carried on the responsibility of the knitting divisions of this work for the Roger Mills County Chapter. She continued her activity and interest in Red Cross, to her final days. Mrs. Davis, as Miss Callie Clark, began teaching in Roger Mills County at the age of sixteen years immediately after completing the eighth grade. She continued her education along with her teaching until she received a degree in Home Economics from Southwestern College of Weatherford, Oklahoma. She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma. She taught in Roger Mills County thirty-two years, nineteen years of which were in Cheyenne where she was Home Economics instructor in high school for many years. One of her great pleasures was the visits and mesages she received from fromer pupoils during her serious illness. Combined with her many activities aned services for the general pubolic, Mrs Davis was a great home woman. She was devoted _____(can't read) selfishly to make a real home, for the members of her family and to provide the best in training and education for her cfhrildren. Mrs. Guy Davis, Callie Dove Clark, was born at Smithfield, Texas, January 12, 1892, and passed away at her home in Cheyenne, Oklahoma May 22, 1951. In 1899 she moved with her parents to Norman, Oklahoma. In 1909 she moved with them to Roger Mills County where they resided near Berlin until 1917 when the family moved to Weatherford, Oklahoma. On June 27, 1920, she was married to Guy Davis at Weatherford, Oklahoma. Immediately they came to Cheyenne where she resided continuosly until her death. To this union two childdren were born: Juanita Marie, now Mrs. A.B. Cochran of Raysville, Louisiana and Guy Clark Davis of Atlanta, Georgia. Relatives other than the husaband and two children who survive include four grandchildren, Guy Stephen and Gary Lee Davis, and Alan Davis and Christina Jane Cochran; two sisters, Mrs. Earl Hullum of Los Angeles, California and Mrs. Marion Boren of Clinton, Oklahoma; and four brothers, C.A. Clark, Wichita Falls, Texas, Paul Clark, Kankakee, ! Illinois and Chris Clark of Los Angeles, California. All of these except Chris Clark were present at the time of her passing. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 24-May-1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html