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Amarillo Globe News 21 April 1998

Davis, Marion Juanita 

GUYMON, Okla. - Marion Juanita "Mom" Davis, 76, died Sunday, April 19, 
1998.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in First Christian Church with the 
Rev. Don Chase and the Rev. David Cook of United Methodist Church at 
Hooker officiating. Burial will be in Elmhurst Cemetery by Bunch-Roberts 
Funeral Home.

Mrs. Davis was born and raised in Holdenville. She graduated from 
Holdenville High School in 1939 and attended junior college at Okmulgee 
for two years.

She married Clement Davis in 1940 at Holdenville. They moved to White 
Deer, Texas. In 1948, they moved to Hooker.

She sang with and directed the Lions Club Minstrels for many years and 
served as manager for Mike Grey's congressional campaign.

In 1959, Mrs. Davis attended Panhandle State University at Goodwell. She 
graduated with a bachelor of science degree in music and psychology.

They moved to Guymon in 1961 and she began teaching at Guymon High School 
in both music and psychology. She retired in 1983 after teaching for 22 
years. She directed many musicals in Guymon and taught voice lessons.

She was a member of First Christian Church and sang in choirs at the 
churches in Guymon and Hooker.

Mrs. Davis was preceded in death by her husband in 1992.

Survivors include two daughters, Marion Duncan of Hooker and Peggy Boren 
of Guymon; a brother, Richard J. Shurley of Edmond; two grandchildren; and 
six great-grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to the Juanita Davis Music scholarship 
fund, First National Bank of Hooker c/o BunchRoberts Funeral Home, Box 
1112, Guymon, Okla. 73942.
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