Davey James

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Davey Jean James, 88, of Waco, passed away Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at Providence Hospital.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the First Baptist Church of Woodway with Rev. Mike Toby and Rev. Jim Gray officiating. Visitation will be from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at the church prior to the service.

Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Stigler, Oklahoma at the Stigler Cemetery.

Davey was born November 12, 1919 in Kanema, Oklahoma, to P.I. and Mallie (Pennington) Garland. She married Carl James on April 13, 1941, and they were married 37 years until his death in 1978.

For 31 years, Davey was with the Oklahoma Department of Human Services in Stigler, OK., before retiring as a Case Work in 1984. She was a Life Member of the Order of Eastern Star in Stigler and later in Waco.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Stigler until she moved to Waco in 1992 and joined the First Baptist Church of Woodway.

Davey was very proud to be a member of the Choctaw Indian Nation. She enjoyed painting, traveling, playing golf, and spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brothers, Lawrence and Jackie Ray Garland; and sister, Marguerite Garland.

She is survived by her daughter, Carol Bird of Waco; grandchildren, Beth Scarborough and husband, Allen of New Braunfels, and Steve Bird and wife, Tammy of Lago Vista; great-grandchildren, Ashley Bird and Evan and Jackson Scarborough; brother, Jerry Garland and wife, Wilma of Oklahoma City, and several nieces, nephews, and cousins.

The family extends thanks to the physicians and nurses of Providence Hospital ICU for their compassion and care.

Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church of Woodway Building Fund, 101 Ritchie Rd., Waco, TX 76712 Attn: Bookkeeper.


INDIAN VERSION of the 23rd PSALM

The GREAT FATHER above a SHEPHERD CHIEF is. I am His and with Him I want not. He throws out to me a rope and the name of the rope is love and He draws me to where the grass is green and the water is not dangerous,
and I eat and lie down and am satisfied. Sometimes my heart is very weak and falls down but He lifts me up again draws me into a good road. His name is WONDERFUL .

Sometimes, it may be very soon, it may be a long long time, He will draw me into a valley. It is dark there, but I'll be afraid not, for it is between those mountains that the SHEPHERD CHIEF will meet me and the hunger that I have in my heart all through life will be satisfied.

Sometimes he makes the love rope into a whip, but afterwards He gives me a staff to lean upon. He spreads a table before me with all kinds of foods. He puts His hand upon my head and all the " tired " is gone. My cup he fills till it runs over. What I tell is true. I lie not.

These roads that are "away ahead" will stay with me through this life and after; and afterwards I will go to live in the Big Teepee and sit down with the SHEPHERD CHIEF forever.