LLOYD DAVENPORT

GRAVEL HILL, Mo. -- Funeral for Lloyd B. Davenport of Blackwell, Okla., will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson, Mo. The Rev. Phil Thompson will officiate. Burial will be in Crader Cemetery in Bollinger County.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. Thursday.

Davenport, 73, died Sunday, Sept. 24, 2000, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Wichita, Kan.

He was born Nov. 4, 1926, in Millersville, Mo., son of John and Eula Proffer Davenport. He and Dottie Stroder were married Feb. 6, 1960. She died Aug. 21, 1990.

Davenport was a diesel mechanic in St. Louis eight years. He returned to Cape Girardeau County where he was a home builder and contractor. He and his wife owned and operated L&D General Store at Gravel Hill, Mo., several years.

He had lived in Blackwell the past 10 years. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War. He was a member of Disabled American Veterans.

Survivors include three sons, Butch Davenport of Marble Hill, Mo., Junior Davenport of Checotah, Okla., Amon Davenport of Perryville, Mo.; two daughters, Glenda Adams and Ladine Gateley of Marble Hill; a brother, Floyd Davenport of Page, Ariz.; two sisters, Dorothy Thompson of Chaffee, Mo., Daisy Weinkein of Moran, Kan.; 16 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by three brothers.