25 SEP 2021, Notes for incoming transfer, sighted; added gender. 1) Bio section as written by the original creator of the memorial has been retained, and is below the divider.~Sedalia Wilma Davis was the daughter of Addie and Minnie K. Miles. On July 8, 1942 she married Napoleon Davis Sr. the founder of the Oklahoma Creek Freedman Association & Shrine and the African American Cultural Heritage Center in Muskogee, OK. She was a graduate of Pittsburg State College in Pittsburg, Kansas where she majored in Elementary Education. She taught in Taft Oklahoma and in the San Diego, California City School System. She retired from teaching in 1977 and returned to Oklahoma.
Her hobbies included sewing and she loved sewing for family and friends. In
San Diego she was a volunteer for the March of Dimes and voter Preceinct President. Sedalia's favorite verse during her illness was "Jesus is knocking and he wants to come in. If you will open, he will save you from sin. If you will open the door to your heart, Jesus will enter and never depart.(")
She leaves behind her loving and supportive husband, Napoleon Davis, Sr; two step daughters, the late Lucy Davis, Eveliae Buchanan, a niece she raised as a daughter, Karon a step son, Napoleon Davis Jr., nine grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren, three great great grandchildren; two sisters, Casola Price and Bernice Porter,; a sister-in-law Emma Milles McAlester; along with a host of other relatives and friends.
Her hobbies included sewing and she loved sewing for family and friends. In
San Diego she was a volunteer for the March of Dimes and voter Preceinct President. Sedalia's favorite verse during her illness was "Jesus is knocking and he wants to come in. If you will open, he will save you from sin. If you will open the door to your heart, Jesus will enter and never depart.(")
She leaves behind her loving and supportive husband, Napoleon Davis, Sr; two step daughters, the late Lucy Davis, Eveliae Buchanan, a niece she raised as a daughter, Karon a step son, Napoleon Davis Jr., nine grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren, three great great grandchildren; two sisters, Casola Price and Bernice Porter,; a sister-in-law Emma Milles McAlester; along with a host of other relatives and friends.
25 SEP 2021, Notes for incoming transfer, sighted; added gender. 1) Bio section as written by the original creator of the memorial has been retained, and is below the divider.~Sedalia Wilma Davis was the daughter of Addie and Minnie K. Miles. On July 8, 1942 she married Napoleon Davis Sr. the founder of the Oklahoma Creek Freedman Association & Shrine and the African American Cultural Heritage Center in Muskogee, OK. She was a graduate of Pittsburg State College in Pittsburg, Kansas where she majored in Elementary Education. She taught in Taft Oklahoma and in the San Diego, California City School System. She retired from teaching in 1977 and returned to Oklahoma.
Her hobbies included sewing and she loved sewing for family and friends. In
San Diego she was a volunteer for the March of Dimes and voter Preceinct President. Sedalia's favorite verse during her illness was "Jesus is knocking and he wants to come in. If you will open, he will save you from sin. If you will open the door to your heart, Jesus will enter and never depart.(")
She leaves behind her loving and supportive husband, Napoleon Davis, Sr; two step daughters, the late Lucy Davis, Eveliae Buchanan, a niece she raised as a daughter, Karon a step son, Napoleon Davis Jr., nine grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren, three great great grandchildren; two sisters, Casola Price and Bernice Porter,; a sister-in-law Emma Milles McAlester; along with a host of other relatives and friends.
Her hobbies included sewing and she loved sewing for family and friends. In
San Diego she was a volunteer for the March of Dimes and voter Preceinct President. Sedalia's favorite verse during her illness was "Jesus is knocking and he wants to come in. If you will open, he will save you from sin. If you will open the door to your heart, Jesus will enter and never depart.(")
She leaves behind her loving and supportive husband, Napoleon Davis, Sr; two step daughters, the late Lucy Davis, Eveliae Buchanan, a niece she raised as a daughter, Karon a step son, Napoleon Davis Jr., nine grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren, three great great grandchildren; two sisters, Casola Price and Bernice Porter,; a sister-in-law Emma Milles McAlester; along with a host of other relatives and friends.
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