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Bob attended school in Rio Frio, Uvalde and Leakey. He graduated from Leakey High School with the class of 1936. After graduation he attended Draughon’s Business College in San Antonio then joined his brothers in Bisbee, Arizona to work in the copper mines where he met his wife Mary.
Shortly after December 7, 1941, Bob enlisted in the Army Air Corps pilot training program. His combat duty was in the Pacific as a B29 bomber pilot. During the Korean conflict he instructed pilot trainees. When that program ended in 1960, he returned to Uvalde to work for Gensco. He later developed the Twin Forks subdivision in Leakey, where he lived the remainder of his life. It was here that he realized a life long ambition of writing and publishing a novel, Balcones, about the area he loved.
Always civic minded, Bob’s service included Pinal County, Arizona, 4H Club County Chairman, Secretary County Fair Commission, Secretary School Board; LaSalle County, Texas, Nueces River Dam Commission, Airport Zoning Chairman, President Chamber of Commerce, President Lion’s Club; Uvalde County, Texas, County Chairman Texas Sesquicentennial Committee, President Chamber of Commerce, Secretary Kiwanis Club, Building Committee First Baptist Church; Real County, Texas, Chaplain American Legion Post, President EMS Inc., Vice-President Lion’s Club, voted Lion of the year-1998/99 for planning and coordinating a ten organization sponsored Fall Festival at Leakey, Texas; Texas 38th District Court Referee for ROW condemnation, Electric Power Transmission Line and for Estate Settlement ranch division.
He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers Auther, Henry, Wesley and John Allen; two sisters, Susie Nichols and Zelpha Taff; three sisters-in-law, Aleine, Louise and Inez; three brothers-in-law, Leroy Nichols, Bruce Taff and Roger Garrison.
Surviving are his wife of sixty-five years, Mary Dever Davis; sister, Lora B. Garrison; sister-in-law Billie Jean Davis and brother-in-law Kline Dever and his wife Annie. Also surviving are one son, Robert Ora (Bob, III) Davis and wife Bonnie, three daughters Karen Hoskelis and husband Jay, Eileen Pirkle and husband Dean, Linda Adami and husband Lee. He also leaves eight grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Services were held at the Frio Canyon Baptist Church in Leakey at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, November 11, 2006. Burial followed in the Leakey Floral Cemetery with Dr. Jim O’Dell officiating.
Pallbearers were his grandsons-Paul Tankersley, Kurt Pirkel, Robert T. (Bob, IV) Davis, Keith Adami and grandsons-in-law Don Dippel and T. G. Osina.
Honorary pallbearers were World War II B29 crew members Jack Sutter and Ed Toole.
Arrangements were by Nelson Funeral Home of Leakey, Texas.
Theresa Hans Lewis
Theresa Hans Lewis, 79, of Alamosa, Colorado died in Denver, Colorado at the St. Anthony Medical Center on Thursday, November 9, 2006. She was born on December 23, 1926 in Utopia, Texas to Joseph Edgar Hans and Maggie Etta Stapleton.
She was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands, Cescar Geddys Chisum and James Henry Lewis; brother G. W. Bybee; sister LaNeil Shackelford and one step daughter Patricia Ann Lewis Rice.
She is survived by: bother Jack Hans and wife Marty of Kerrville, Texas; sister Martha Jane Michel and husband Carl of Bandera, Texas; two sons Butch and wife Luann Chisum of San Antonio, Texas, Hans Lewis and wife Valice Lewis of D’Hanis, Texas; three daughters Mary Porter and husband Les of Alamosa, Molly Mewborn of Gilmer, Texas and Ginger and husband Lee Anderson of Buda, Texas; two stepsons Mike Lewis and wife Lee of Florida, Dan Lewis of San Diego, California; eighteen grandchildren fifteen great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Theresa was a telephone operator in Leakey until 1958 when she lost her first husband and moved her family to Uvalde where she worked for Williamson Dickey Plant until 1963 when she became a housewife and was a stay at home mom to second husband. She lived in Texas until 1987 when she moved to Colorado to live with daughter Mary and Les until her death.
She suffered several illnesses in her life but always bounced back and was very proud of her family and was called “Pretty Granny”.
If you care to send cards, please send them in care of Nelson Funeral Homes, P.O. Box 365, Camp Wood, Texas 78833
Services were held on Sunday, November 12, 2006 at the Nelson Funeral Home Chapel in Leakey, Texas with interment in the Vanderpool Cemetery.
Arrangements were by Nelson Funeral Home of Leakey.