12/19/1947 – 3/13/2025
Lawrence
Private family services for Linda M. Davis, 77, Lawrence were held at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. The burial took place in Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence. Linda died on March 13, 2025, at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community in Lawrence.
Linda was born December 19, 1947, in Ellsworth, Kansas, the daughter of Herbert and Eva (Milberger) Michaelis. She lived in Russell, Kansas, graduating from Russell High School in 1965 and then attended Ft. Hays State University where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1970.
She was a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. As a homemaker, she volunteered extensively in the Hays and Lawrence communities and later worked as a paraprofessional at South Junior High School for several years starting in 1997.
She married Robert E. Davis on June 12, 1971, in Russell, Kansas. He survives of the home.
Survivors include her son, Steven (Katie) Davis of Overland Park, KS, four grandchildren, Landon, William, Amelia and Hattie; two sisters, Patricia Michaelis and Barbara Michaelis.
The family suggest memorial in her name to the Parkinson Foundation of the Heartland or to KU Endowment for the Landon Center on Aging and may be sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary.
Online condolences may be posted at warrenmcelwain.com.
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