Catherine "Kate" A. Davis

Catherine "Kate" A. Davis, 90, Clear
Lake, died Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2007 at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient
Unit, Mason City, Iowa. A funeral service was held Saturday, Jan. 27, at
Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, with Lay Assistant Richard
Scott officiating. Interment will be held at the Clear Lake Cemetery.
Memorials may be given to Hospice of North Iowa. Kate was born Nov. 18,
1916 in Clear Lake, the daughter of Orren and Dorcas Rose (Pester)
Porter. She graduated from Clear Lake High School. She lived in Clear
Lake her entire life. Kate married Charles "Chuck" Davis on March 3,
1935 at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. They were married for
over 69 years. Kate was a great cook. She loved baking, sewing and her
cats. Her greatest love was spending time with her children and
grandchildren. She was a very thoughtful mother and grandmother to all.
She enjoyed playing Scrabble, cards, and especially 500 at the Clear
Lake Senior Citizens Center and at home. She was a member of Zion
Lutheran Church. Kate is survived by four children, Sandra Cesar, Clear
Lake, Jill Deuel and her husband, Rick, San Antonio, Texas, Joni
Anderson, Kingman, Az. and Scott Davis and his wife, Rene, Forest City,
Iowa; eight grandchildren, Shaun Cesar and his wife, Lori, Tracy
Connell, Dwayne Davis, Stacie Peavy and her husband, David, Chad Deuel
and his wife, Michelle, Cody Deuel, Christie Anderson and Heidi Spurlock
and her husband, Davy; 13 great-grandchildren and three
great-great-grandchildren. Kate was preceded in death by her parents;
her husband, Charles on July 3, 2004; son, Michael; two infant
great-grandsons; four sisters, Flossie Skellenger, Ella Bruns, Lucille
Franklin, and Esther Evans. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake,
was in charge of arrangements.