Donald Reid Davis, the son of Thurman Lee and Geneva (Walker) Davis, was born October 18, 1922 in Fairfax, Missouri. Don attended Daleview country school in rural Fairfax and Fairfax Public Schools. Don worked with a custom harvesting crew for a short time.

On December 3, 1942 Don entered the United States Army, serving his country overseas as a paratrooper, during World War II. He received his honorable discharge, on October 19, 1945.

On November 11, 1945, Don was united in marriage to Lou Ella Miller in Hiawatha, Kansas. They made their home in Fairfax, Westboro, and Tarkio, Missouri, and Nebraska City, Nebraska, where Don was employed for area grain elevators. They then moved to Marienthal, Kansas, where Don owned and operated the Snow Flake Popcorn Company. Following retirement, in 1988, they moved back to Tarkio, where they lived to the present time. Don passed away Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at Community Hospital-Fairfax, at the age of 86 years.

Don was a member of the Allen-Schiffern American Legion Post #199, Tarkio, the Tarkio United Methodist Church, and the Leoti, Kansas, Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Besides his parents, Don was preceded in death by three brothers, Cliff, Jerry and Paul, and five sisters, Thelma, May, Lucile, Margaret and Helen. Survivors include his wife Lou Davis, Tarkio; one son Jim Davis, New York, New York, one daughter, Sue Davis, Tarkio; two granddaughters, Katy Moore and her husband Justin and Elizabeth Powers and her husband Steve, all of Springdale, Arkansas; five great-grandchildren; one brother, Richard Davis and his wife Franki, Fairfax, and one sister, Irene Mather, El Dorado, California; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Memorial Services: 10:30 am, Friday, December 5, 2008 at Davis Funeral Home, Tarkio. A private family inurnment will be held at a later date. There is no visitation.
Memorials: United Methodist Church of Tarkio or the Tarkio Nutrition Center.
Services are under the direction of Funeral Home, Tarkio.