Agnes Mabel Riley Davis

Agnes was born in Bend, Oregon on March 15, 1925 to James “Frank” Riley and Hazel (Lutz) Riley. She attended her first nine years of school in Umatilla, Oregon and graduated at Stanfield High School as the class valedictorian in 1943. After high school she went to work in Pendleton, Oregon where she met Corporal William F Davis who was in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. They married in Riverside, California on May 2, 1944 just before he shipped out for Okinawa.

Agnes was a homemaker and housewife during and following the war. Franklin Riley Davis, her 1st born son was born at Ordinance ,OR, October 1944, where there was a military hospital situated near The Umatilla Army Depot, west of Hermiston, William Fairchild Davis, Jr. arrived June of 1947 with Joseph Glenn Davis following in July of 1948. The family moved to Massillon, Ohio for a period before coming back to the Echo Meadows in 1958.

Marcus Anthony Davis came into the world in May of 1962, in the Dalles, Oregon where he and his mother stayed through Tony’s graduation of H.S.

Agnes loved animals! She had goats, cats, dogs, and birds, just to name a few. She loved her sons and later their families.

Agnes passed away on December 19, 2015. She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother at birth in 1945, a sister Minnie "Frankie" Umbarger (1982), sister Penelope (Nellie) Welch (2014), son, Joseph (2000).

She is survived by a sister, Anna Louise Burchett of Stanfield, Oregon; her son Frank and his wife Marilou of Riddle, Oregon; Bill and his wife Marlene of Springfield, Illinois; Tony and his wife Terri of Gresham, Oregon; 14 grandchildren; 30 ggrandchildrend; 5 gggrandchildren.

Placement in early spring at the Hermiston Cemetery week of March 14th. Arrangements by Gateway Little Chapel of the Chimes Portland, Oregon.

~ submitted by William F. Davis Jr.

My mom was as unique as anyone I have ever known. She loved being raised on the farm and the farm life never left her, even after moving to the big city in 2002. She loved animals, and affectionately referred to her cat, as "Kitty".

She had a quick wit, and sense of humor. My mom had an extraordinarily keen use of the English language and would use it in her own trade mark way. An example would be her referring to her father and mother as her "paternal parent" and her "maternal parent" or if she referred to anyone as having passed away, she would just say that they "expired."

She had a lifelong love for music and poetry. She could recite long poems from memory and did so for the doctor and nurses in her last days. Her word search book remained a past time that she really enjoyed.

I know she was loved deeply by her family and that she loved them.

She will be greatly missed by us.

~ submitted by Marcus (Tony) Davis