June Eaton Davis

is honored with a Brick from Rosetta Davis Walz.

June Henrietta Eaton Davis was the youngest child born to Ella Morgan Eaton and Bejamin D. Eaton on June 28, 1916 in Hays, KS. It was there that she grew up on a farm with one sister and two brothers. On August 29, 1937, she married Harold O. Davis in Garden City, KS. The earlier part of their 56 year marriage was spent farming in Meade, KS and in later years, they moved to Hutchinson, KS where she resides today. Four daughters and four sons were born to June and her husband, and to date she has 20 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

In our pursuit of higher education, in our work and in travel, and in those relationships outside of our family, we are privileged to make many wonderful discoveries about the world in which we live. Without the early lessons of a caring mother, however, our perception of that greater world would have much less meaning. Both by word and by example, June Eaton Davis set out to teach her children to value the simple pleasures in life, to be honest with self and with others, to cherish family and country, to have respect and compassion for all living creatures, to work hard in order to achieve goals, but more importantly, to be content with those achievements, regardless of how great or small they are. Her loyalty to her marriage in the final and difficult years of her husband's life, despite her own pain and physical limitations, serves as a reminder to us of the courage that we will surely need as we grow older. She is a loving mother and grandmother with a boundless sense of humor, whose arms are always ready to embrace even the most unpardonable of us. As the oldest of her eight children, I am grateful for the opportunity to say that June Eaton Davis has been a noble inspiration in my life and to honor her as a true heroine.

submitted by Rosetta Davis Walz '84

August 10, 1999