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Leona Pauline Davis
Visitation - Sunday, March 2, 2008 4 PM to 8 PM
Monday, March 3,
2008, 8 AM to 9:30 AM
Hempen Funeral Home - New Baden, IL
Funeral Service - Monday, March
3, 2008, 10 AM
Zion United Church of Christ - New Baden, IL

Leona Pauline Davis lived a life filled with
love for her faith, her family, her friends, and her flowers. She was
born in New Baden on September 30, 1912, to John and Louisa (Herbstreith)
Baehr, and was a graduate of New Baden Community High School. She was a
telephone operator for 15 years in New Baden and enjoyed her position
very much, many times remarking, "I don’t know what I would have liked
better!" She retired in 1948 when she married the love of her life,
Abraham B. "Abe" Davis on June 5, 1948 at Zion United Church of Christ
in New Baden. Leona never remarried after the death of her husband on
January 24, 1963 because, she said, she already had the best husband in
the world.
Leona took great pride in her home and
garden. She could be found working outside from the earliest days of
spring to the last days of autumn, tending her beautiful flowers and
grooming her yard. She was also an accomplished seamstress and sewed
most of her own clothing as well as her daughter's. She enjoyed reading;
even as an eight-year old, she said she read the newspaper from cover to
cover. As a youth, she spoke fluent German but with the advent of World
War I, the citizens of New Baden no longer spoke the language, even in
their homes. She was always full of stories of her family from her
earliest childhood to last Christmas. Leona was a member of Zion United
Church of Christ in New Baden, and spent many hours there worshiping and
taking part in its activities; it was a central and very important part
of her life.
Leona’s life spanned travel by a horse drawn
surrey to seeing men travel to the moon. She remembered when Scott Air
Force Base was named Scott Field and when dirigibles flew so low in the
sky that she could wave to the pilots from their backyard. She began
sewing doll clothes at age six, a hobby that she enjoyed her entire
life.
For the last four years of her life, Leona
lived with her daughter in Bettendorf, Iowa, and spent the last six
months at Riverview Manor in Pleasant Valley, Iowa, where she made
friends and enjoyed the daily activities. She was thankful that she
remained alert and walking almost to the day of her passing on February
27, 2008, at Genesis East Hospital in Davenport, Iowa. She was 95 years
old.
Those who forever will miss her are her
daughter, Carol, and son-in-law Michael Hart, granddaughter Susanna and
great granddaughter, Annah Eberhardt, who brought so much joy to her, as
well as many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her
husband, parents and siblings Oliver Baehr, Walter Baehr, twin brother
Leroy Baehr, and Doris Weldon.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m.
on Monday, March 3, 2008 at Zion United Church of Christ in New Baden,
IL with Rev. Gretchen Sterrett officiating. Burial will follow at
Greenmount Cemetery in New Baden.
Friends may call Sunday, March 2, 2008 from
4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and on Monday, March 3, 2008 from 8:00 a.m. to
9:30 a.m. at Hempen Funeral Home in New Baden.
Memorials may be made to Zion United Church
of Christ Building Fund and will be received at the funeral home.
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