Ruth Davy

Thursday evening, December 21, 2006, Ruth Davy passed away at her home north of Bonners Ferry of cancer-related complications. Funeral Services will be held on Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 11:00am at Crossroads Chapel with private interment in the Grandview Cemetery. Born in Hall County, Texas to Minnie and Ira Ware on March 22, 1909, our beloved Grandma D will be sorely missed by numerous friends and family. Ruth was preceded in death by Wade, her husband of 60 years and sons Gary and William Davy. Sisters Jessie Ware, Elsie Wilson & Mary Thompson and brothers G. Buren, Leo, Robert and Harley Ware also preceded her in death. She is survived by her sister, Lucile Hughes of Redding, California, son Kenneth, daughters Norma Greenslate, Judith Davy Frank and Linda Davy, nieces Lois Phillips, Lucinda Ware & Norma Ashley, and nephew Robert Ware. Additional surviving family includes seventeen grandchildren (Russell, Brian, Keith, Kevin & Martin Davy; Steven, David & Jon Greenslate; Edward, Evan & Jamie Frank; Cathrine Lemaire, Ronda Carlyon, Kristi Johnson, Tracy Tonini, Erica Johnston & William Bass), sixteen great-grandchildren (Lyle, Jeremy, Christopher, Nicholas, Andre, Wade & Amber Davy; Sidney & Ghena Greenslate; Robert, Alan & Laura Cook; Kayleigh, Kendal & Kolbi Tonini and Trinity Johnston) and one great-great-granddaughter, Alexis Rachelle Davy. Ruth retired from the Forest Service (Red Ives Ranger Station) in 1984 to care for her husband. She had served as the resource clerk for six years. Prior to that she was District Clerk and a relief lookout for the Georgetown District on the Eldorado National Forest in California from 1961 to 1977. The Forest Service was a third career for Ruth who had begun her working life after completing a Secretarial course in Sacramento, California at Heald's Business College in 1928. Early temporary positions included clerk-stenographer roles with the Sacramento Lumber Company and the Butte County Superintendent of Schools. She was working at the First National Bank of Oroville when she met and subsequently married Wade Davy on August 28, 1930. When the children began arriving, Ruth turned her attention to raising the family although the circumstances of the Great Depression caused her to seek employment with the Oroville Title Company and the District Attorneys office at times to supplement the family income. Later, when the family had moved to Georgetown, CA, she served as the bookkeeper for the family logging business and as clerk of the Georgetown Divide Elementary School Board. Ruth always loved working with young people and was the director of the youth group for the Methodist church in Georgetown for many years. She was forever young at heart and believed in always learning new things. She will be remembered as a great encourager of the young. Dear Grandma, I cannot tell you how wonderful it was to see you; thank you for letting me stay with you and for visiting with me. It was great to see Norma, too, and those cousins and that new, gorgeous baby. I do miss you; I am sorry I had to fly back so soon to my busy, grown-up life. Sometimes, in those craziest and poignant moments, it seems so wonderful and terrible that I have grown up at all, that we all grow older each day: all that joy and sadness – the drama, of time, I suppose. But I know that, to you, I have always been a little girl (it's true I haven't grown as much as some in our clan), and I believe that I will always be that child, as long as I recall the things you've taught me, through your grace, your beauty, your amazing example. You've shown me growing things, pointed out the mountains in the sky and the baby robins in the eaves; you've danced with me, sung with me, played with me, laughed with me, fed me, clothed me, believed in me, and loved me unconditionally. You showed me to how shout "Good morning, World!" as if the whole world could hear, to love and live life, and to always, always look for the sunlight, because it is surely there somewhere; I believe that. You've shown me how to be strong, work hard, to be thankful and humble, and to not waste time. Writing this, I'm not doing any of it justice, but those things most marvelous and wonderful are often ineffable. It is not enough to thank you, but I will. Thank you, for everything you are, everything you have been to me and to so many others. I admire you so greatly -- and I love you so dearly, more than I could ever begin to say. Good night! I hope you have plenty of company, that you're warm and comfortable, and that Ditto is on his best behavior.