Centerville Iowegian – 6 December 1979
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Roy Lovejoy Davison, 88, a retired farmer and
Appanoose County employee, who had resided at 423 East Van Buren Street in
Centerville, died at the home of his daughter [Bethel Ballanger] near Coatsville [Schuyler County],
Mo., Wednesday, December 5, 1979. He had
been in ill health and living at her home the past two years.
Born May 8, 1891, near Moulton, he was the
son of Charles and Mary Ledbetter Davison. On November 26, 1913, he married Regina Crow
in Appanoose County, and she survives.
When a young man he joined the Brethren
Church in Udell. The Davisons farmed
south of the Mt. Ararat Church east of Centerville many years, and for five
years of their 22 years in Centerville, he was caretaker of the Appanoose
County courthouse lawn.
His
parents, a son Lloyd Davison, a grandson and two sisters, Blanche Crow and
Flossie Sanders, preceded him in death.
Survivors
besides his wife include two sons, Richard and Gerald Davison, both of
Centerville, one daughter, Mrs. John (Bethel) Ballanger, Coatsville, Mo., 12
grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Services will be Friday, 1:30 p.m. at
Miller-Wehrle Funeral Home in Centerville, with the Rev. Dr. Douglas Oelke
officiating. Burial will be in Jerome
cemetery. A memorial to the Easter Seals has been established, and memorials
may be given to the funeral home.
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Roy Lovejoy and Regina Isabella (Crow) Davison's
Gravestone in the Jerome Cemetery
Row 4, Block 30, Lot 10
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