Mary Mae Davis

      Mary Mae Davis, 72 of Nampa, died Friday, October 21, 1994 at the her home.  Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Monday, October 24, 1994 at the Alsip Funeral Chapel.  Rev. Doug Roberts, associate pastor of the Deer Flat Free Methodist Church, will officiate.  Interment will follow in the Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.
      Mary Mae Davis was born on January 22, 1922 near Stickney, South Dakota to Edwin Curtis and Melvina Alene Rogers, the fourth of nine children.  She was reared and attended schools at Stickney and later received her teacher’s degree from Southern Normal Teachers College in Springfield, South Dakota.  She taught school in South Dakota and later moved to Idaho, where she taught in the Riverside and Bennett communities.  She married Harlin Lowell Davis on December 23, 1943 in Meridian and they lived in the Star Community.  In 1948 they moved to Nampa to make their home.  She attended the Link’s School of Business in Boise and was later employed in the savings and loan business.  She retired from Provident Federal in 1986.  Mr. Davis died in 1975, and she had resided in Nampa since.  Her greatest joy in life was her family and she shall be remembered for her generosity and caring ways.  Mary is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Connie Jo (Mrs. Gary O.) White and Susan Elizabeth (Mrs. Ronald) Mowry both of Nampa; one son, Randal Curtis Davis, Nampa; two brothers, George Rogers and his wife Joann, Stickney, South Dakota; Lyle Rogers and his wife Jeanette, Huntington Beach, Calif.; one sister, Alene Swanson and her husband Bob, Nampa; eight grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.  Besides her husband she was preceded in death by her parents and five brothers.  Friends may call at the Alsip Funeral Chapel on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Monday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.  The family suggest memorial contributions to the Mercy Hospice Program, 1512 12^th Ave. Road Nampa, Idaho 83686 or flowers may be sent.