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Appendix A
BENTON: She never learned to drive herself?
JACK DAVIS: No, she never learned to drive. Well, she had a maid and a chauffeur
when she married Mr. Curtis at age 50.
BENTON: And that was the first marriage?
JACK DAVIS: Her first and only marriage. She was only married about five years, and
he died.
JOAN DAVIS: She used to stay in people’s homes in Montrose. It was about 50 miles,
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and she would ride the bus. Then one of the families that lived in town
would pick her up and keep her at their house. The children loved her.
I used to get goose pimples hearing her preach. She did a lot of her
preaching on last-day events. She would get newspaper clippings of
earthquakes, hurricanes, or different things that were taking place—
train wrecks or airplane wrecks, and she spoke a lot about the things
that were happening in the last days—the soon coming of the Lord. I
thought the Lord was coming the next day.
She never read a sermon.
I heard that young interns started with her. In fact, I believe
Elder Dower, who was head of the ministerial department of the
General Conference—
Yes, I remember Elder Dower! He was young, and handsome. I
remember Kay, his wife. Very nice. Oh, there’s a lot of them that
interned under my aunt’s leadership.
Ministers drifting away on some point of doctrine or Sister White’s
writings would be sent to my aunt to be rehabilitated. Some she won
and some she didn’t.
She always wanted people around, the more, the merrier. And she had
a good sense of humor.
Sounds as if she was very balanced.
Yes, that’s a good description of her.
She dressed fine, always wore nice suits and clothes and hats; but she
leaned toward working with people.
She was a handsome woman. She stood out in a crowd.
She was physically strong.
Sounds as if she knew how to enjoy life. Now tell me a little more
about this preaching that thrilled you.
She didn’t preach over anyone’s head. She just preached to the heart of
people and made them see the closeness of the hour in which we’re
living. That changed their lives. My aunt reached everybody.
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