Funeral services were held for Mrs. Myrtle Davis Reade at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 8th, at Theis Memorial Chapel at Highland Cemetery. The Rev. A. E. Conard of Ashland officiating. The singers were Kenneth Rankin, Delmar Horner, George Be__yman and Dean Matthews, with Mrs. John York playing the organ. They sang "Abide With Me" and "Be Still My Soul." Casket bearers were Arlow Wesner, Raymond Bro___, Errol Baker, Kenneth Baker, Robert Baker and Hugh McIntyre. Interment was in Highland cemetery with the Livingston funeral service of Kingman in charge.Obituary
Myrtle Davis Reade, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Davis was born in Hancock County, Tenn., November 20th, 1894 and departed this life November 7th, 1948 at 4 o'clock a.m. at Rago, Kansas.
In 1920 she was united in marriage to Jay T. Smith of Wilmore, Kansas. He passed away in 1927.
In 1930 she united in marriage to E. E. Reade.
Myrtle was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and lived a Christian life confessing her faith in her Savior in the Baptist Church of Wilmore, Kans., and gave of her services to the church there, a number of years. Myrtle was always thinking of others or to make some member of her family happy, giving untiringly of her time and strength to care for the sick and unfortunate in her family.
Myrtle was a graduate of Pittsburg High School and Kansas State Teacher's College of Pittsburg Kansas. She taught school fourteen years, teaching her first year at Varda Springs, Tenn., and the remaining thirteen years of her teaching life in Clark, Kiowa and Comanche counties. She retired from the teaching profession a number of years ago, having been stricken with a heart malady which took her from this world.
In passing, the family loses one of the greatest sisters any boy or girl could ever hope to have.
Myrtle was preceded in death by a brother, James R. Davis, 1940, her father, James E. Davis, in 1941 and leaves to mourn her passing, her husband, E. E. Reade, her mother, Mrs. J. E. Davis, five sisters and four brothers, Mrs. John Briggs, Mrs. Paul Briggs of Protection, Kans., Mrs. Aencos Baker of Ashland, Misses Quinnie and O_a Davis of the home, and four brothers, Buford of Belvidere, Tom, W. P. and Charles all of Ashland, a number of nieces and nephews and a host of friends. -- Clark County Clipper.
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