- Date Of Birth: September 14, 1927
- Date Of Death: October 24, 2022
- State: Utah
Anna Belle Davis, 95, passed away peacefully, October 24th, in Ogden, Utah. Being bed-ridden for the last ten months and unable to participate in Mass, she looked forward to reciting the Rosary with me each visit. It was a comfort for both of us. She received last rites before passing.
Mom was born September 14, 1927, in Anaconda, Montana, to Joseph and Rose Denault. She graduated from Sacred Heart Academy in Klamath Falls, Oregon, in 1945. During her senior year, she worked at two jobs–cleaning broccoli and working in a catsup factory. She never ate broccoli the rest of her life, and it was decades before she would eat catsup. And Mom insisted that she indeed walked three miles to school each day in the snow!
Mom met Ralph Kline at the Grange Hall in Klamath Falls, Oregon, while he was on leave during World War II. She remembers that during the war there was a nylon stocking shortage so she and her sisters would draw lines up the back of their legs with eyebrow pencils.
Mom and Dad married on January 26, 1946 and were stationed in California until his enlistment was up. Dad then worked for the Great Northern railroad, so the family moved frequently throughout Northern California and Washington. They lived in railroad housing while raising their daughters. Mom said the housing was usually painted an awful smelly WWII surplus green, so she avoided that color green from then on.
After her divorce, Mom moved to Sacramento and worked for the Sacramento Union Newspaper as a senior bookkeeper and retired after 30 years in 1991. She was an avid member of the bowling team and met some of her best friends there. Rather than relax and enjoy retirement, Mom found a job as a bookkeeper with a local car repair shop.
Mom met Lee is 1972 and they enjoyed flying his plane to air shows, sometimes taking the grandchildren. After Lee passed in 1992, Mom moved to a to a senior complex and joined their choir, played pinochle, cribbage, and her favorite, bingo. Mom received a Super Nintendo for her birthday in 1983 and played it nearly every day until the last year of her life. She moved to Utah in 2002.
Mom is survived by daughters Gayle Sebastian, Ogden, Utah, Linda Kline, Sparks, Nevada, and Diana Singleton and Beverly Jameson of Eureka, California. She has twelve grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren. She is survived by her sister Joyce Trask of Medford, Oregon. Preceding her in death are her parents, brother Oscar, and sisters Angela, Maryrose, Julia, and Norma, and her daughter Kathryn.
Mom will be in interred in Hillcrest Cemetery, Medford, Oregon.
