Miller Co. Autogram 3
April, 1945
SISTER OF MRS. R. M. FENDORF DIES IN ST. LOUIS
     Mrs. Edna Davidson, born and reared at Iberia, passed away in  St.
Louis Friday morning, May 26 at the age of 47 years.  While Mrs.
Davidson had been under medical care for several years, her death was
rather sudden
and was due to the recurrence of a heart ailment.  On Tuesday evening,
May 22, she suffered a heart attack and succumbed to recurring attacks
the following morning.
     Mrs. Davidson was the eldest surviving child of Selby J and
Josephine Heltzell, longtime residents of the Iberia community,  now
both deceased.  Born May 8, 1898, she grew to young womanhood at Iberia,
and on June 4, 1916, she was married to M. J. (Jennings) Davidson, only
surviving child of the late Miles J. Davidson, Sr.  In 1929 Mr. Davidson
with his family moved to St. Louis in furtherance of his work of highway
construction, and has resided there since that time.  Two children were
born of this marriage;  Marie, an instructor at Washington University
and the wife of Fred C. Leaver, of St. Louis and Emille, wife of Capt.
G. Kenneth Blank, U S A A F, an overseas pilot but now base commander of
Lambert Field, St. Louis.  Two grandchildren survive Mrs. Davidson;
David Blank and Jeanne Leaver.  Two sisters and two brothers also
survive her;  Eska Fendorf, of Tuscumbia;  Mary Louise Miller of Bowling
Green;  John S. Heltzell of Iberia; and George D. Heltzell of Paris, Mo.
       Early in life Mrs. Davidson became a member of the Congregational
Church at Iberia, and was a member of Iberial Chapter 537 O. E. S.
Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon, May 28, at 2 O'clock
by Rev. Raymond E. Maxwell at the C Hoffmeister Colonial Mortuary in
St. Louis and interment was at the Sunset Burial Park in that city.