{"id":16587,"date":"2020-03-18T02:23:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T07:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=16587"},"modified":"2024-12-04T13:12:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T19:12:15","slug":"obituary-davis-wendell-allen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=16587","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Davis, Wendell Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1952<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1952 Maroon Spotlight<img src=\"http:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1952_Davis_Wendell_yearbook.jpg\" alt=\"Wendell Davis\" \/><br \/>Wendell Davis<\/h2>\n<p>D. E. 50-51, Football 51-52, Basketball 48-51, Band 48-51.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1952 Graduation Edition<\/br>Perry Daily Journal<\/h2>\n<p>Wendell A. Davis, 18, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Farris Davis, 1314 Fir avenue.  He plans to enroll at Oklahoma A. &#038; M. college.  Wendell was a member of the band from 1948-51 and participated in basketball and football.  He has received all his schooling in Perry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Wendell Allen Davis<\/h1>\n<h3>March 21, 1934 &#8211; December 9, 1993<\/h3>\n<p>Wendell Allen Davis, 59, Tyler, TX, died Thursday in a Tyler hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Born March 21, 1934, in Perry, Okla., he was the son of Farris and Mabel Harkins Davis.  After graduation from Perry high school in 1952, he served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Davis started a small boat dealership, Davis Boat Sales, that grew to the largest in Tyler, TX.  By 1987, with more than 30 years in the marine industry, the company was named one of the top five Mercury dealers in Texas and one of the top 100 in the United States, and one of the top Yamaha dealers in the county.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include two daughters, Joyce Ann Chambers and Karen Igla, both of Overland Park, Kan.; mother, Mabel Davis, Beaumont; one brother, Gordon Leroy Davis, Springdale, Ark.; and two grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Services were held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Broussard&#8217;s Mortuary chapel in Beaumont, Texas.  Burial was in Magnolia Cemetery, Beaumont.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-FullWidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16587"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26355,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16587\/revisions\/26355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}