This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davis, Johnson, Brandt, Ashdon, Wallace, Fender Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QFB.2ACE/1468 Message Board Post: Mr. Darrel Lee Davis, age 60, of Assyria Township, passed away Friday, July 21, 2000 at Pennock Hospital in Hastings. He was born on June 1, 1940 in Assyria Township, the son of Merle W. Davis and Ora E. (Johnson) Davis of Bellevue. Mr. Davis attended Battle Creek Ann J. Kellogg and Bellevue High School, where he played in the High School Marching Band. He was a resident of Dowling for 39 years and had been in ill health for the past eight months. Mr. Davis was owner and operator of Darrel Davis Masonry in Dowling for 40 years, was owner and operator from 1979-1982 at Davis and Sons Tractor Business, was a bus driver for Hastings Area School for 23 years, retiring in 1996. He married Carolyn M. (Brandt) Davis of Dowling on March 18, 1961 in his parents house in Assyria Township. Mr. Davis was a charter member of the Abundant Life Fellowship Ministries of Maple Grove Township. He enjoyed going for coffee, camping and snowmobiling at home and in Baldwin. He was always ! on the move and enjoyed traveling. He liked working on his computer, and loved spending time with his children and grandchildren and going to church. Mr. Davis was preceded in Death by his father, Merle W. Davis in October of 1995; brother, Norman Davis in infancy; sister, Gloria M. Davis in infancy; and grandson, Matthew Davis in 1983. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn M. Davis of Dowling; mother, Ora E. Davis of Bellevue; seven grandchildren; son, Jeffrey L. Davis (wife, Ellen) of Dowling; son, Scott A. Davis (wife, Rachel) of Dowling; son, Richard T. Davis (wife, Lisa) of Nashville; brother, MIlburn M. Davis (wife, Pat) of Bellevue; brother, Donald C. Davis of Bellevue; brother, Neil D. Davis (wife, Marie) of Dowling, brother, Marvin E. Davis (wife, Bernadette) of DeLand, Florida; sister N. Jean Ashdon (husband, Bob) of Hastings; sister Nancy A. Wallace (husband, Clyde) of Bellevue; sister, Janet E. Fender (husband, Floyd) of Vermontville. The family will be presen! t on Tuesday, July 25, 2000 from 6:00 - 8:30 P.M. at the Bachman Hebbl e Funeral Home at 223 N. Bedford Road, Battle Creek. Celebration of Life Services for Darrell will be held on Wednesday, July 26, 2000 at the Pleasantview Family Church at 11:00 A.M. with Dr. David R. MacDonald of Abundant Life Fellowship officiating. Interment will be at Union Cemetery in Maple Grove Township. Memorials may be made to Abundant Life Fellowship Ministries. Arrangements were made by the Bachman Hebble Funeral Home in Battle Creek. (The Hastings "Reminder" - Tuesday, July 25, 2000) Transcriber has no family connection.