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First Visitation
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Friday, March 22, 2024
Noel's Funeral Home, Carbonear
106 Water St.
Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Saturday
23
March
Second Visitation
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Noel's Funeral Home, Carbonear
106 Water St.
Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Saturday
23
March
FUNERAL SERVICE
2:00 pm
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Noel's Memorial Chapel, Carbonear
106 Water Street
Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Carson Loveless posted a condolence
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Condolences to his family and his loved ones
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Sheri Sparkes posted a condolence
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Brent, Denise, Jamie and families, so sorry to hear of your dad’s passing. We all have great memories from when he taught us in school to when we all went camping, to many times at your house. Cherish your many memories, thinking of you all at this time.
Sheri (Peach) Sparkes
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-Lal Family planted a tree in memory of Elmer Davis
Friday, March 22, 2024
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Sending hugs your way Davis family in honour of your dad.
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Elaine Oates posted a condolence
Friday, March 22, 2024
Elmer was such a kind Brother In Law to my late husband Russell Oates (during his illness) Sara Mackenzie and Mikaela thought the world of their Uncle Elmer . May he rest in peace .
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Keith & Pamela Matthews posted a condolence
Friday, February 16, 2024
Brent and Family:
We are sorry to learn of your father’s death. Please accept our sincere condolences.
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Scott Fillier posted a condolence
Sunday, February 11, 2024
It is quite affecting to hear of the recent departure of Elmer Davis from our midst at age 96. My sympathies to his family and host of descendants and friends.
Family of Elmer Davis, Brent in particular, will know that I have previously and publicly attributed my beginnings as a NL artist to a pupil-teacher encounter with Elmer Davis when he taught school in Roddickton, NL two years before NL became a Canadian Province. Here, it’s very important to point attention to a mere two other ways that my life changed irrevocably because of that encounter.
Not only was Elmer Davis, my Grade Four teacher that year, but he also took room and board with my family from September of 1947 to mid-June of 1948,
and just a short while after he had moved in with us, his mail from the outside world included his forwarded copies of a St. John’s daily newspaper. And of course everyone in the house had opportunity to look through those papers and absorb the visceral, emotional connection with pictures, articles, and ads of a living, breathing, outside, closed-to-us world of St. John’s and beyond. We had only the most rudimentary roads, not to mention streets, no cars or trucks, no trains, no telephones, no library, no electricity, no supermarket, no indoor plumbing, etc., (just a huge lumber mill at the centre of town with its Saunders-Howell Carbonear origins; and far too many —a plethora of evangelical churches) to just paint a minimal picture of our cultural comparisons, so the paper suddenly brought the outside world crashing and crunching into our humble outpost kitchen and living room in a literal, tangible way that the radio could not. I got totally absorbed in the comics, which of course were drawings, and still remember some individual images from the those comic strips. Just these three vivid encounters with a romanticized anthropology and the deep past (Alley and Oona Oop); with the imaginary lives of tropical swamp critters (Pogo); and with a futuristic metropolitan crime sleuth (Dick Tracy) laid down such a bewitching path to healthy imaginary engagements outside of our daily limitations.
Elmer Davis had full access to our family radio to nourish his two other attachments to his obviously much missed world: “Hockey Night in Canada” and “Britain Calling Newfoundland”. Even though I wasn’t pulled towards sports I do remember, because of Davis’ Saturday night intense huddle at the radio, in a half-lit, wicker-lit oil lamp corner of our living room, the heroic way Foster Hewitt broadcast the major dust-offs between Toronto, Detroit, and Montreal. And hockey’s Hot Stove League deliberations are still almost vivid enough for recall of their actual Hockey Star banter. However, it was his other program that still pulls at me and I can never fully fathom why.
"Calling Newfoundland from Britain", should have been beyond any interest of mine at that age, and was all about a former Newfoundlander, Margot Rhys Davies, broadcasting then from London, England, helping British war-brides in NL and NL servicemen still in Britain just after World War II, to stay in contact with their origins. The program started with tolling bells from Big Ben in London, and then the NL National Anthem played. That alone evoked something grand. NL was, of course, a dedicated and loyal British Colony in 1947. The program, the definitive opposite of Hockey Night in Canada, was very formal, in impact somehow even royal and regal; and Elmer Davis would enter a completely altered state of being — a deeply moved emotional state. There were no tears, but that program touched him in a way that nothing else did or could, and somehow that transmitted itself directly to me. There was in those overseas stretchings and strainings of separated and broken connections, along with nostalgic yearnings, along with the crackle and hiss of short-wave radio, the unexpected components of poetry and a vastly more literate world than the one in my kitchen, in my village … in my British Colony. And I was sitting there trying to perceive the mystical and powerful significance of broadcaster Davies’ radio mood on Elmer Davis, and upon me.
That Elmer Davis intersection with my life in 1947, despite its being so humbly personal, and so long ago, opened doorways that register now as epic.
Scott Fillier
Stratford, Ontario
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Iris Carter posted a condolence
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Roland and I send our sincere condolences to you all on the passing of your dad.
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Tina oates posted a condolence
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Our condolences. Mr Davis will be missed. You are in our prayers and thoughts.
Blessings and Peace
Rev Tina Pages and Mr John Swore
United Kingdom
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Bill Kennedy posted a condolence
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Denise, Brent, Jamie and families. Sorry to hear of your Dad’s passing. Many fond memories of all of you at Jame’s Moore and CIC.
Bill Kennedy.
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Helen posted a symbolic gesture
Thursday, February 8, 2024
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Rest in Peace Mr. Davis.
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Karen and John Comerford posted a condolence
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Brent, Cynthia and family,
I'm so sorry to hear of Elmer's passing. So many wonderful memories at Bethany with him and Yvonne. Sending condolences to you all.
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Sherry Myers posted a condolence
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
To The Davis family
Deepest sympathy on the passing of a wonderful man. A friend and colleague for over 60 years. A very inspiring teacher.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you all at this time.
Lorne and Doreen Squires
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Sherry Myers posted a condolence
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
To the Davis family
I was so saddened to hear about Mr. Davis's passing. I have very fond memories of him in school, church and spending many hours with Denise at their house. My thoughts and prayers are with you all at this time.
Sherry Myers(Squires)
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Helena Dean Roche student 1960-1963 posted a condolence
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Davis family, so sorry to hear of Mr. Davis's passing. He was a great person and a miracle worker as a teacher. He got me through Algebra and Trig. With sincere sympathy, Helena (Dean) Roche
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Dr Peter Hanson posted a condolence
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
I was saddened to hear of Elmer's death. He was a colleague of mine when I taught music in Carbonear. I always found him to be a kind and helpful person. I send condolences to his family.
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Barry and Lori Dooley posted a condolence
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
To Brent , Cynthia and the Davis family.
We're so sorry to hear of your dad's passing.
Please know that our thoughts and prayers are with you.
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Marie (Butt) Martin posted a condolence
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
My condolences to the Davis family. Mr. Davis was one of my teachers at James Moore Regional High. He was a good teacher and a good person and was very encouraging towards his students. My mother had a conversation with him later on in life and he remembered still many of his students by name. He told her he liked Freshwatermen because so many of them were very smart in school. Rest in Peace Mr. Davis.
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Milton and Joan Peach posted a condolence
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Brent, Denise, Jamie and families,
Sorry to hear of your Dad’s passing. We have many treasured memories of your Dad, as teachers together, as neighbours, and as friends of your Mom and Dad. As we reflect back on our camping days together, arriving at a park, setting up our trailers and the screened tent so we could all help take our turns to check on Jamie in a mosquito free area. Those great memories are priceless! Our thoughts and prayers are with you all as you celebrate his long life. Keep your memories close. God Bless!
Milton and Joan (Peach)
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John Murray posted a condolence
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
For: Members of the Davis Family
Sorry to learn about Elmer’s passing.
May the Lord be a source of comfort and peace at this time.
Cherish the memories and there has to be many of them.
You are in my thoughts and prayers.
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Geoff Howell posted a condolence
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Brent and the entire family so sorry to hear of Mr Davis’s passing. My memories go back to Mr Davis being our cub/scout leader all those years ago and the patience and caring that he had with all of us. Then later as vice principal of St James/James Moore where he done a fantastic job. A great educator. Reunited now with his soulmate Mrs Davis for eternity. Cherish your many fond memories and celebrate a life well lived. Rest in peace Mr Davis and thank you.
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Mary Hayter Puddister posted a condolence
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
So sorry to hear of Mr. Davis's passing. Fond memories of him throughout the school years. A very kind and thoughtful man and great teacher to his students and all students. Well liked by all who knew him , whether in the school system or church or just as a friend. Rest easy Elmer Davis. Condolences to all the family. God Bless...
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Gary Saunders posted a condolence
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
To the entire Davis Family;
Mr Davis was an excellent teacher and a fine gentleman all around. Deepest condolences to you all at this saddest of times.
Gary Saunders
Windsor, NS
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Carolyn Hearn posted a condolence
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Brent, Denise and Jamie
All of us at Lanes both staff and residents send to you our deepest of Sympathy as you go through this difficult time. He will surely be missed. Memories are forever, may God bless you all.
Carolyn Hearn and staff
Lanes Retirement Living Carbonear
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Barry Peach posted a condolence
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
So sorry to hear about Elmer’s passing my sincere condolences to the family.
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Frances Saunders & Barb Smith posted a condolence
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Our condolences to all the family. May your wonderful memories be a comfort in the days ahead. God bless
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Paul Fifield posted a condolence
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
My condolences. Mr. Davis I always remember you you as a kind and gentle person. Smart, Whitty, passion to share your knowledge with others, inspiring and a mentor. You will be greatly missed but thank you for living a full life. It’s been a pleasure to have know you.
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James R. Butler posted a condolence
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
I have many fond memories of numerous interactions with Mr. Davis, both as a student and acquaintance, over many years. My sincerest condolences to his family members. God bless. Jim
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Kim Mcdonald lit a candle
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
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To the Davis family
Sorry to hear of the passing of your dad. I remember him fondly from school and church. May all the memories you hold give you comfort and happiness as you remember and celebrate his wonderful life
Kim and Rob McDonald
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Greg Ash posted a condolence
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Brent, Cynthia and Jamie,
My thoughts and prayers are with you at this time. I’m sorry to hear about Mr. Davis passing. I remember him well as my teacher in high school and the many years we lived next door to each other. Take care. Wishing you all strength and comfort over the coming days.
Greg Ash
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David Peddle posted a condolence
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Sorry to hear of Elmer's passing. Please accept my sincere condolences.
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David and Kathy Bishop posted a condolence
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Brent, Cynthia and family. So sorry to hear of the passing of your Dad Brent. Take care during this difficult time and cherish the memories of your Dad.
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Wanda Taylor-Kelly posted a condolence
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Denise, Brent & Jamie, so sorry to hear of your Dads passing. I have many memories of your Dad. Keep your memories close.
Wanda (Taylor) Kelly
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Lois ( Broderick) Scammell posted a condolence
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Please accept my sincere sympathy! Mr. Davis was one of my high school teachers & vice principal at James Moore! A kind thoughtful man.
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Herman & Daphne Greening posted a condolence
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
To the Family: We are sorry to hear of your Dad"s passing. He led a very long and productive life. As a co-worker we shared many memories. Please accept our condolences.
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
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