Adele E. Davis

Adele was the wife of an American Foreign Service officer, Tom Davis, and assisted the latter with his diplomatic and consular responsibilities: first at the Legation in Vientiane, Laos, and then in succession at Hong Kong, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Adana, Turkey, and the Embassies at Aden, Athens, and Kingston, Jamaica. During assignments in Washington, D..C. Adele supported her husband as housewife, mother, and hostess, and at times was a guest at various official functions, foreign and American, including the Kennedy White House.

She was born 23 Oct 1921, at Montague, Massachusetts to Sophia Mary Wroblewska and her husband Peter Matthew Pirog. The family shortly thereafter moved from nearby Turner’s Falls, Massachusetts to Bridgeport, Connecticut where she subsequently was taught by the Sisters associated with St. Michael’s Church, the latter operated by the Franciscan Order.

As a young woman, Adele Pirog felt it important to serve her country during World War II. She enlisted in the Waves at the beginning of 1944, and following postal school served at San Francisco throughout the remainder of the war.

It was in San Francisco Adele met her husband to be. They were married November 20, 1944, a marriage which lasted until her death at Oceanside, California on December 4, 2010. Her son, Richard P. Davis, born March 8, 1959 reached home from India the day before her death

Adele was an avid reader of books and magazines, and the North County Times and San Diego Tribune, often tackling the cross word puzzles appearing in each. She loved birds and animals, especially her Bengal cat, Koby; but her interest in animals ranged from the wild to domestic.

A Funeral Mass will be offered December 16 at one o’clock in the Mission San Luis Rey church, followed by interment in the Mission cemetery.

Sirach 36:24 “A wife is her husband’s richest treasure, a helpmate, a steadying (influence).