Deceased Name: Robert Porter "Dick" Davis
© Coalgate Record Register - Published: 12 August 2009
Submitted by: Pati Holder
Robert Porter “Dick” Davis was born October 20, 1921 to Robert Porter, Sr. and Lue Ann Carlton Davis, at Elmore City, OK and died July 31, 2009 at Lawton, OK. He was buried August 3, 2009 at the Pleasant Grove Cemetery northwest of Tupelo, OK, Rev. Allan Brott officiating and arrangements were by Eisenhour Funeral Home in Blanchard.
Dick joined the CCC's on August 30, 1941 and stayed until March 4, 1942, when he enlisted in the Army Air Force, shortly after the war was declared. He served in the Asiatic Theatre, receiving that ribbon as well as the USAFF theatre ribbon, the Good Conduct ribbon, Phillippine Liberation ribbon, and the WWII Victory ribbon, showing he served honorable during the whole war. He was discharged November 22, 1946 as a Corporal. Afterwards he was a Civil Service employee at Tinker Air Field as a Jet Engine Inspector, until his retirement in 1976. He was chosen to help set up the display for the Smithsonian in Washington D.C., showing how those Jet Engines were tested and documented.
Besides his family, he loved mechanical tinkering and because of his early retirement, his daily Honey-Do lists. He married Mildred Mae Dickinson, May 4, 1942 at Coalgate. She died April 3, 2005, one-month before their 63rd anniversary. Their tombstone reads “Great Love lives on- Together We Toiled- Together We Rest”. They had one daughter, Billie Jean.
Survivors are his daughter, Billie and her husband, Tom; grandsons, Randy Bowen and wife Diana, and Daryl Bowen and wife Kristi of Chandler, OK; great grandchildren, Caleb Bowen, Baylee Bowen, Jeromey Clayton, Lindsay Rains and Hunter Rains; brother, Kennith Davis and wife Vyrilllia of Little Axe, OK; sister, Jane Dunnigan, Barstow, CA and sister-in-law, Ruby Nell Coats, Lakeland, FL.
Preceding him in death was his wife, his parents and two brothers, Ted Davis and Jeff Davis.