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Kay Davis
February 22, 2019
Kay F. Davis signed this guest book for Marvin T. Davis on February 22, 2019.
69th Anniversary
My parents, Frances Leona Morris and Marvin Thomas Davis, were married on March 25, 1950.
They were natives of Westmoreland County and grew up in Sandy Point. They moved to Northumberland County in 1973 and settled in Callao.
Marvin Davis was an auto mechanic at J.C. Moss & Son, a Chevrolet dealership in Kinsale, Va., for 31 years. Retiring in 1978, he moved to Clinton, Md., and became an auto mechanic for Smithsonian Institution in Suitland.
My father designed and built his Callao home. He retired there in 1998. I remember him as a retiree shuffling down the hall in his scuffs to make a pot of fresh coffee each day. He read Consumer Reports and Time in the mornings and watched Last of the Summer Wine in the afternoons.
Frances Davis was a homemaker who loved mystery books, crossword puzzles, board games, and cards. Her favorite pastime was landscaping her yard. She trimmed her lilacs and forsythias and filled her gardens with tulips, geraniums, marigolds, and zinnias.
In the 1970s, Frances was a part-time librarian at Woodland Academy in Neenah, Va. She was a part-time librarian and bus driver for York Academy in Shacklefords in the early 1980s.
My parents were soft-spoken, easygoing introverts. They were a fire-water pair--an emotional, headstrong Aries and a shy, retiring Cancerian. They were conservative in their beliefs but not overbearing in their expectations.
My parents were of the honest, ethical variety hard to find in recent generations. They were excellent workers and designers of sacred home spaces. Over the years, they built a lovely estate which my mother named The Pines. They carefully filled their home with crafts, collectibles, and creative meals shared selectively with family.
Though they are no longer with us, they will be remembered as loving parents, thoughtful guardians, and generous caregivers to their five children, seven grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren.
Kay Frances Davis
Their Youngest Daughter
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