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Show I Death Calls to toCc toClay toClay Cc Clay Davis DavisClay Sresident Sresidentor or ! or1oab Clay Davis a 69 a resident of ofMoab ofMoab \1oab 1oab Moab ' \ : for about 20 years dwd died dwdFrIday diedFriday diedFriday FrIday at his Ius home here follow followmg following following mg ing a protracted illness Death Deathwas DeathWas Deathwas was the result of cancerFuneral cancerFuneral cancer cancerFuneral Funeral services Were held heldSunday heldSunday heldSunday Baptist flaptist Sunday afternoon at the Bap flap tIst church There was a large largeattendance largeattendance largeattendance attendance of friends and many , floral manyfloral offerings offermgs The serVIces serVIceswere serviceswere serviceswere were presided over by Rev W WE WE WE E Parks The opening openmg number numberwas numberwas number'was numberwas ' was a hymn Beautiful Isle ofSomewhere of ofSomewhere ofSomewhere | Somewhere sung by bv Mrs Les Lester Lester Lester CorbmMrs CorbinMrs ter Taylor Mrs J W Corbm Corbin Mrs Ola Walker and Mrs Loren LorenL L Taylor Mrs William E Parks Parksaccompanymg Parksaccompanying Parksaccompanying accompanymg accompanying Scripture read readmg reading reading mg ing and prayer by Rev Parks Parksfollowed Parksfollowed Parksfollowed followed The quartet sang Safe sangSafe in m the Arms of Jesus In Intns his Inhis sermon Rev Parks told of ofMr Mr Davis life in Grand county countyand countyand countyand and as a neighbor Mrs C J Meador andEdd JMeador Mrs Tom Taylor and Edd E Provonsha sang Nearer NeareI NearerMy NeareIMy My God to Thee accompamed accompanied by accompaniedby accompamedby Mrs Ola Walker At thecemetery thecemetery the theemetery : byRev emetery cemetery prayer was offered by byev , Rev ev Parks Pallbearers were WIlliam wereWilliam J 3 Pray James L Stocks LStocks . J .1 1 L Watts and Dale M MParnott MParriott MParnott MParnottHenry bornNov Parnott Parriott ParnottHenry ParriottHenry Henry Clay Davis was born bom'Jov bomJov . Nov ' 7 1876 at Gladbrook GladbrookIowa He came west to Colorado , ' a man I married Nutting NuTtmg to Miss Elizabeth NuT Nut tmg ting No children were bom born to tothIS tothis tcthis thIS marriage Mr Davis resld resid reslded resided resided ed in Delta and Grand JunctIon JunctIonfor Junctionfor Junctionfor for many years being bemg engagedin engagedm engaged m in the trucking truckmg business busmess In 1928 1928he 1928he 1926he he came to Grand county locat beat locatmg beating locating mg ing at Thompsons where he op operated opcrated operated parkLater erated crated a garage and camp park Later he came to Moab where he hebUIlt hebuilt hebuilt bUIlt a garage and later a cafe cafeand cafeand cafeand and service station stahon He marrIed marrIedMIss marriedMiss marriedMiss MIss Velda Perkms Perkins in 1937He 1937He 1937 1937He He is survived by his wIdow wIdowone widowone widowone one daughter Joanne 8 and andone andone andone one son Norman 5 three bro brothers brothers brothers thers and one sister ' Will 'WIll DavIs DavIsDecatur DavisDecatur DavisDecatur Decatur Iowa Dan Davis Los LosAngeles LosAngeles LosAngeles Angeles H D Davis Delta DeltaColo DeltaCob DeltaColo Colo Cob and Mrs Boyd Stone StoneBenedict StoneBenedict StoneBenedict Benedict MInnAmong MmnAmong Minn Mmn MinnAmong Among the relatives from fromoutside points pomts in attendance at atthe funeral were H D DavIs Cob Colo Mrs Clyde Cordmg Cording daughter Joanne of Grand u n c tJ 0 n Mr lVIr and Mrs Theobold of Grand Junc June Junetion and Mr and Mis J D of 0f Portland OreMr OreMr Ore OreMr Mr Davis had a host of in m Grand county who whowere grieved gneved to learn of his |