Ethel Davenport

Ethel Eulene Davenport, 82, of Phoenix died Monday, March 31, 2014, at Desert Willow Assisted Living Home in Phoenix. She formerly lived in Page, Ariz.

She was born Feb. 4, 1932, in Brazeau, Mo., daughter of Spencer C. and Ethel Morton Jones. She married Floyd Davenport nearly 62 years ago.

Ethel was a 1950 graduate of Jackson High School. She worked for Jim Stubbs at the Lake Powell Chronicle when the town of Page was still young, shortly after moving there. She then worked at Walmart, where she retired after 20 years. Prior to Page she had lived in Williams, Ariz., where she worked at a hospital until it closed. Before that she was an Army wife 23 years.

Survivors include her husband; two sons, Michael (Jeff) Davenport of Phoenix and Clinton (Mary) Davenport of Flagstaff, Ariz.; a brother, Dean (Sue) Jones of Jackson; three sisters, Dorothy Farrow of Jackson and Shirley (Robert) Englehart and Patsy Langston of O'Fallon, Mo.; a brother, Gary (Jeaninne Glueck) Jones of Springfield, Mo.; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Spencer "Pete" Jones and Joe Lynn Jones.

A service was held April 10 at Samaritan Funeral Home in Phoenix. Interment was in National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona in Phoenix.

Announcement courtesy of McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.