Obituary

Juanita Mae Davis, 60

Juanita Mae Davis, daughter of Willard L. and Edna Mae Rutledge Dufur, was born July 2, 1938 at Harper, Kansas. She lived in several towns in Kansas before moving with her family to Eads, Colorado in January of 1951.

On June 5, 1954, she married Lee Davis at Clovis, New Mexico. They lived in or around Eads until 1966 when they moved to Yakima, Washington. Juanita lived there 30 years, a brief time in Branson and Ozark, Missouri, and the last five years in Waverly, Kansas of which she had spent the last year and a half living at the Sunset Manor Nursing Home.

Juanita had worked as a dispatcher for a trucking company in Waverly. She was a member of the Trinity Baptist Church in Lyndon; Rebekah Lodge #85 in Eads; and attended the Coffey County Republican Women and the United Methodist Church in Waverly.

Her death came on Sunday evening, May 30, 1999, at the Coffey County Hospital in Burlington after a long struggle with cancer.

She was preceded in death by her husband, William, who died October 10, 1989, and a daughter, Debra D. Davis, who died in November 1, 1960 at the age of 20 months.

She is survived by her parents, Willard and Edna Mae Dufur; six sons, Lucky, Martin, William, Charles, Willard and Thedore Davis; two sisters, Carolyn Randel and Mary Stratton; a brother Melvern Dufur; 12 grandchildren; 4 great grandchildren; and other relatives and friends.