Obituary of Glenna Eileen Davis

Glenna Eileen Klyne Davis, 89, passed away peacefully on September 25, 2012, at Birch Bay Village in Bar Harbor, Maine. Glenna was born on January 31, 1923, in Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada, the only child of Herbert S. and Florence (Pritchard) Klyne. After the deaths of her parents in 1924 and 1929, she was raised by her stepmother Bessie Barrington Klyne Clow and her guardians Ben and Lizzie (Tye) Thurston. She graduated from Brockville Collegiate Institute in 1940 and then from Ottawa Normal School (later Ottawa Teacher’s College). She taught school in a one-room schoolhouse in rural Ontario and at primary schools in Guelph and St. Catherine’s in Ontario, Canada. She also attended Queens University summer school where she met William (Bill) Davis, whom she married in 1948. While he worked at the University of Buffalo, they lived in Buffalo, New York, and then in 1954, they moved to Marietta, Ohio, where he taught physics at Marietta College. They had a long, loving marriage, raising two daughters, traveling, and enjoying their grandchildren. She worked part-time at the Marietta College Library from 1968 until they retired in 1983 to Somesville, Maine. Glenna and Bill became U.S. citizens in 1984 and moved to Birch Bay Village in Bar Harbor in 2005. Glenna enjoyed spending time with her daughters and summers in the Thousand Islands in Ontario while raising them. She liked working with college students and staff while working at the college library. She also enjoyed reading and knitting. Glenna loved spending time with her grandchildren reading and playing games. She and Bill took pleasure in traveling to National Parks and visiting Acadia. Glenna was predeceased by her parents, stepmother, guardians, and husband of 62 years, Bill. Glenna is survived by her daughters, Nancy Ferrer and husband Rich of New Jersey, and Judy Davis of Otter Creek, Maine; and her grandchildren Will Davis and wife Kristin, Rob Davis, Amy Ferrer and her husband Jeremy Cushing, Emily Ferrer, Jenny Underdown and her husband Peter, and Lloyd G. Roberts; and her great-grandson Samuel Underdown.