Mary Edith Davis

Mrs. Mary Edith Davis Mrs. Mary Edith Davis, 88, longtime Bartlesville resident, died at 8:15 A.M. on Friday, April 4, 2014 at the Jane Phillips Medical Center. Funeral services for Mrs. Davis will be held at 2 P.M. Monday, April 7, 2014 at the Spirit Church (formerly 1st Assembly of God) with Pastor Darryl Wootton officiating. Interment will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery directed by the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory. A memorial has been established and those who wish may send their contributions to the Spirit Church, 900 S.E. Dewey Ave., Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 74003. Mrs. Davis was born at Murfreesboro, Tennessee to Rufus Clayton and Bessie (Collins) Craighead. She moved with her family by covered wagon as a child to Mutual, Oklahoma where she grew up, received her education and graduated from high school. She attended Central Bible Institute in Springfield, Missouri where she played basketball, sang in the choir and was active in missions all while earning her Associates Degree. Prior to her marriage she had worked briefly in the café at the Burlingame Hotel in Bartlesville and she was married to Rabie Edmond Davis Jr. on August 16, 1946 in Bartlesville. They made their home in Bartlesville and then lived in Nowata from 1955 to 1966, Woodward in 1966 and 1967 and returned to Bartlesville to make their home in 1967. Mrs. Davis was employed at Montgomery Ward in Bartlesville for 22 years as the manager of the jewelry and shoe departments. She loved to quilt and was an excellent seamstress. She was a member of the Spirit Church in Bartlesville where she had been active as the treasurer of the Women’s Missionary Council . Mrs. Davis is survived by one daughter, Angela Cash and husband Dennis of Bartlesville, four sons, Rabie Edmond Davis III of Antioch, Tennessee, Gary E. Davis and wife Barbara of Oklahoma City, Mark D. Davis and wife Linda of Los Angeles, California and Phillip A. Davis and wife Joy of Sarepta, Louisiana, five brothers and sisters, Eugene Craighead of Bartlesville, Alberta Stroud of Many, Louisiana, Imogene Fuqua of Austin, Texas, R.C. Craighead of Seattle, Washington, and William Craighead of Fort Collins, Colorado, 21 grandchildren and 50 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, seven brothers and sisters and her husband, Rabie Edmond Davis Jr. in 1992. PDF Printable Version

Mary Edith Davis

October 15, 1925 - April 4, 2014