Mildred Lora Davenport, 92, of Sweet Home died Jan. 10. 2009. She was born Jan. 4, 1917 in Japton, Ark. to Jessie James and Sarah Rose Etta (Eubanks) Miller.
She moved from Arkansas to Texas in 1937 and then returned to Arkansas in 1939. In 1941 she moved to Vernonia and eventually settled in Sweet Home in 1945.
Mrs. Davenport was a member of Oak Street Church of Christ in Albany. During World War II she was an aircraft warning service observer and earned her wings. She worked at U.S. Plywood in Lebanon, Cardwells Department Store, Cornett’s and Sprouse Reitz in Sweet Home. She retired in 1982 from White’s Electronics.
She enjoyed gardening, canning, reading, hunting and fishing. She loved to cook and no one ever left her home without being fed.
Mrs. Davenport is survived by her husband, Ewell Hayden Davenport Sr. of Sweet Home; daughter Joy and her husband John Claborn of Sweet Home; son Ewell and his wife Deb Davenport of Albany; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, LaQuita, in 1943; her father in 1941; her mother in 1975; brothers William, Marion, twins Oval and Orville, and her twin brother, Loren; sisters Oma McChristian and Esther Steeley of Arkansas, Maggie Drain Dixon of Salem, Wilma Garrett of Jefferson and Sina Milburn Cahill of Sweet Home.
Memorial contributions can be made in her name to Sweet Home Fire & Ambulance District in honor of the paramedics she so dearly loved.
A viewing will be 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, at Sweet Home Funeral Chapel. Funeral service will follow at 2 p.m., also at Sweet Home Funeral Chapel.
Sweet Home Funeral Chapel is handling the arrangements.