Doris Davis

Doris Darlene Davis, age 77, of Nashua, Iowa, passed away April 2, 2013, at the 11th St. Chautauqua Nursing Home in Charles City, Iowa, after a long battle with cancer. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday April 5, 2013 at St. John Lutheran Church, Nashua with Rev. Alan Schulz presiding. Interment will be held in Oak Hill Cemetery, Nashua with Jason Davis, Eric Davis, Chad Stambaugh, Phillip Baldwin, Dean Lynch, and Clark McGregor serving as pallbearers. Friends may greet the family 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Thursday April 4, 2013 at the Hugeback - Johnson Funeral Home in Nashua. Visitation continues an hour prior to the service at the church on Friday. Doris Darlene Davis was born in Worth Co., Iowa, in the Grafton area, on March 10, 1936. She was the daughter of Clarence and Amelia Schultz (Walk). She received her education in Grafton and graduated from Grafton High School in 1953. On February 14, 1954, she married Robert 'Bob' Davis of rural Grafton/Plymouth. The couple made their first home in the Carpenter/Northwood area, on a farm. In their union, four children were born to them: Douglas Lee, Donald Thomas, Doreen Renee and Darla Rochelle. In Doris' time, she enjoyed her family, grandkids, and loved to prepare good ole' fashioned home cooked meals. Doris loved her sewing, crocheting, knitting, quilts, bedspreads, needlepoint sewing or whatever her hands felt busy to create. She loved the outdoors and had a passion for gardening, for which she kept the family supplied with fresh, canned, or frozen veggies. She also enjoyed the Big 4 County Fair, which she entered ceramics, sewing, canned, & baked items. Winning her 5 trophies! She was a very active member of St. John Lutheran Church with choir and was secretary of the Rebecca Circle. Survivors include her husband, Bob, of Nashua. Two sons: Douglas (Cindy) Davis of Aurelia, Iowa & Donald Davis of Ionia, Iowa. Two daughters: Doreen (Kraig) Baldwin of Tripoli, Iowa, & Darla (Jeff) Beckner of Waverly, Iowa. Three grandsons: Jason Davis, Eric Davis, & Phillip Baldwin. Three granddaughters: Melissa (Chad) Stambaugh, Chelsea Beckner, & Megan Baldwin. Great granddaughters: Haylie and Anna Stambaugh and Great grandson, Hudson Davis. Two brothers: Dale and Allen Schultz, of Grafton, along with several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother, Russell Schultz, and one sister, Arlene Sletten.