1917
Mary
2007
Mary Jo Davey
June 4, 1917 — December 13, 2007
Mary Jo Davey, 90, of Sioux City departed this life on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007, at her home in Sioux City at Holy Sprit Retirement Community.
Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. Burial will be alongside her husband in South Creek Cemetery, Ponca, Neb. Visitation with the family will be 4 to 7 p.m. today, with a St. Teresa Study Club rosary at 4 p.m., at Christy-Smith Larkin Chapel.
Mary Jo was born June 4, 1917, in Milford, Iowa, to the late William and Evelyn Meyers. She grew up on a farm near Milford with her three sisters and one brother. She graduated from St. Angela Academy in Carroll, Iowa, and then attended Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa, for one year. She met her husband, a physician, in early 1945, when he was on leave from the U.S. Navy. The couple were married later that year in New York City.
Mary Jo dedicated most of her life to her family, but she always regretted having to cut short her own college education. So after the birth of her three oldest children, she enrolled part-time in Briar Cliff College. Her children remember her studying late into the night after she had ensured that everyone else in the family had their homework completed. She graduated from Briar Cliff in 1969; it was one of her proudest achievements.
A love of music led her to volunteer work with the Sioux City Symphony, where she served on the board and as board president from 1981 to 1983. She also served on the board of the Sioux City Youth Symphony. As president of Blessed Sacrament's St. Anthony's Church Circle, she was responsible for the publication of a church cookbook, "The Heaven Scent Cookbook." She and her friends, Margie Packard and Marty McCarthy, tested every recipe that went into the book, and a number that were not included.
Though she would have been just as happy to stay at home and work in her garden, her husband loved to travel and together they visited England and Ireland, the West Indies, Mexico and much of North America. She loved to read and instilled that love into each of her children.
She leaves behind two sisters, Agnes Dripchak of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Dorothy O'Neill of Milwaukee, Wis.; four children, Barbara and her husband, Michael Cook of Dallas, Texas, Abbie and her husband, John Rowlett of Charlottesville, Va., Patrick and his wife, Heather Davey of Lexington, Ky., and Peter Davey of San Francisco, Calif.; five grandchildren, Michael, Katie and Crissy Cook and James and Steven Davey, a soon-to-be great-grandson, John Christopher Gallagher; and a great-granddaughter, Grace Gallagher, who visited her many times over the past three years and made her smile.
She was preceded in death by her devoted husband, William Patrick Davey; her brother, William Meyers; and her sister, Helen Louise Bath.
Her family is grateful for the loving comfort and care given by the staff at Holy Spirit and by Hospice of Siouxland.
Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. Burial will be alongside her husband in South Creek Cemetery, Ponca, Neb. Visitation with the family will be 4 to 7 p.m. today, with a St. Teresa Study Club rosary at 4 p.m., at Christy-Smith Larkin Chapel.
Mary Jo was born June 4, 1917, in Milford, Iowa, to the late William and Evelyn Meyers. She grew up on a farm near Milford with her three sisters and one brother. She graduated from St. Angela Academy in Carroll, Iowa, and then attended Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa, for one year. She met her husband, a physician, in early 1945, when he was on leave from the U.S. Navy. The couple were married later that year in New York City.
Mary Jo dedicated most of her life to her family, but she always regretted having to cut short her own college education. So after the birth of her three oldest children, she enrolled part-time in Briar Cliff College. Her children remember her studying late into the night after she had ensured that everyone else in the family had their homework completed. She graduated from Briar Cliff in 1969; it was one of her proudest achievements.
A love of music led her to volunteer work with the Sioux City Symphony, where she served on the board and as board president from 1981 to 1983. She also served on the board of the Sioux City Youth Symphony. As president of Blessed Sacrament's St. Anthony's Church Circle, she was responsible for the publication of a church cookbook, "The Heaven Scent Cookbook." She and her friends, Margie Packard and Marty McCarthy, tested every recipe that went into the book, and a number that were not included.
Though she would have been just as happy to stay at home and work in her garden, her husband loved to travel and together they visited England and Ireland, the West Indies, Mexico and much of North America. She loved to read and instilled that love into each of her children.
She leaves behind two sisters, Agnes Dripchak of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Dorothy O'Neill of Milwaukee, Wis.; four children, Barbara and her husband, Michael Cook of Dallas, Texas, Abbie and her husband, John Rowlett of Charlottesville, Va., Patrick and his wife, Heather Davey of Lexington, Ky., and Peter Davey of San Francisco, Calif.; five grandchildren, Michael, Katie and Crissy Cook and James and Steven Davey, a soon-to-be great-grandson, John Christopher Gallagher; and a great-granddaughter, Grace Gallagher, who visited her many times over the past three years and made her smile.
She was preceded in death by her devoted husband, William Patrick Davey; her brother, William Meyers; and her sister, Helen Louise Bath.
Her family is grateful for the loving comfort and care given by the staff at Holy Spirit and by Hospice of Siouxland.
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