Dorothy Davis, 84

Dorothy Davis passed away at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 9, 2016, at Hospice House from uterine cancer. Born Dolly Dot Lindsay on Oct. 9, 1931, to Mary Emily Martin and John Ray Lindsay in Granite, Idaho. She lost her loving father when she was only 7. She was the sixth child of 10 born to those parents.

Those siblings were William John, Sufferonia (Sally), Gordon Ray (Pete), Lenor, Mary Helen, Dolly Dot (Dorothy), Virginia Ruth, Esther Pearl, Margaret and David Frank. The family moved a number of times in North Idaho after her birth and finally settled in Chilco where her father passed. Her school teacher did not like her name, so he taught her to spell Dorothy. She was known by that the rest of her life. Her husband Irwin Davis called her Dolly or Dot interchangeably. They never had children.

Dorothy graduated from Rathdrum High School and worked at a number of businesses through the years. She lost a lung working in the old Coeur d’Alene Laundry. A new worker hit her with the mangle when she was trying to teach the youngster to iron sheets. The lung never recovered from the collapse. She worked as an aide in nursing homes and cared for many people’s children. After marrying Irwin, they lived in American Falls until Irwin was injured on the heavy equipment he ran; they returned to Coeur d’Alene to Dorothy’s longtime residence.

Dorothy has had a heart attack, stroke and a near diabetic coma. She has spent time in assisted living where she suffered those events. She was moved to Ivy Court, where she has resided for some time before being moved to Hospice in the last stages of Uterine cancer.

Dorothy was predeceased by Irwin; her parents; a stepfather, Bernard L. Vedder; her brothers, Bill and Pete; her sisters, Sally Fuller, Mary and Virginia Lindsay, and Margaret Roche; a niece, Kristine Dorothy Culatta who was named after her; a great-nephew, David Stalker and a nephew, Jerry Lindsay. She is survived by brother David; sisters Lenor Self and Esther Webb; 29 nephews and nieces; and innumerable great-nephews and nieces.

Dorothy has donated her body for research, a choice she made many years ago, her gift to the medical system and patients in the future. Prayers are requested and, if you choose to donate let it be to Hummingbird Fields Hospice on Prairie Avenue.