Richard Dean DAVIS

Enid News and Eagle Enid, Garfield Co., OK

11-30-2008

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

The funeral service for Richard Dean Davis, 53-year-old Enid resident, will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008, in the Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home Chapel. Wade Burleson, pastor, will officiate. Burial to follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home.

Richard was born Aug. 2, 1955, in Perry, OK, to Loren Dean and Dorothy Pearl (Brown) Davis. He died Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. He graduated from Enid Public Schools and married Raye Tripp on April 25, 1975. They had recently celebrated 33 years of marriage. He worked for Western Enterprises every year for a number of years at the 4th of July show at Meadowlake. Richard was known as Mr. Fix-It, who loved to camp, fish and graden. He would help anyone in need, was always very kind and loving, and had an all-around gentle nature. He loved his entire family very deeply.

He was preceded in death by his brother-in-law, Bill Steel; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Davis, as well as his mother-in-law and father-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Tripp.

Richard is survivied by his loving wife, Raye, and son, Jacob, both of the home; his parents of Enid; and two sisters, Susan Steel of Enid and Trudy Musgrove of North Port, FL.