NAPLES — Glennis Irene (York) Davis sprinted into the Kingdom of Heaven on Tuesday, February 22, 2022. She was only 94 years young.

Mrs. Davis, or Nana, as she was called by her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, was born on January 11, 1928, in Farmington, Maine, the third child of Linwood and Lila (Mosher) York, the founders of Sandy River Farms of Farmington.

My mom often spoke about what a wonderful childhood she had living on that small farm, among those hills and woods of Mosher Hill and Titcomb Hills along Ramsdell Road. Mom always told wonderful stories about those beautiful hills where she and her sisters, Phillis, Alice and little brother Herbert (Bussie) York often raced down those snowy hills on wooden sleds in the winter, riding her pony named Trixie all over those same fields in the summer and hiking across those colorful hills in autumn. Mom simply described herself as “a corn-fed farm girl from the hills of Farmington.”

Last summer, my mom and I drove back to Farmington so she could admire those same lovely hills with her brother Bussie, one last time. Mom always spoke of that visit as being one of the happiest days of her life, a memory she spoke of almost every day after.

My mom met my father, Robert “Bob” Davis in Rumford while he was home on leave from the Marines and they immediately fell in love, a love story that lasted for over 60 years until my dad’s passing. Mom always said that my father’s smile was so bright it still shines in her heart every day.

My parents had two children, Steven and Debbie. When we were little our family moved to Dixfield, Maine, and our parents bought a little white house on the corner of Weld Street and Kidder Avenue. We were surrounded by the most loving and wonderful neighbors you could ever hope for, such as the Spaudings, the Ladds, the Trubees and so many more. Mom was always so thankful to the Lord for helping to make that little white house possible because she always felt that Dixfield was just the perfect little town to raise healthy kids.

Glennis was a Registered Nurse for almost 50 years and was blessed to serve others her whole life. Serving Jesus, her family and our country meant everything to Nana. When asked to name a few things that she loved about life my Mom answered: Serving Jesus, holding her children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren in her arms, attending Easter Sunday Sunrise Services, watching her beautiful flower gardens come back to life, colorful songbirds at her feeders, seeing the first robins to arrive in spring, Thanksgiving dinner with family, decorating Christmas Trees with the little ones, reading her Bible, watching her granddaughter Julia playing field hockey for the Lake Region Lakers, walking a mile on the high school track every day, mornings after a beautiful fresh snowfall and the sweet smell of lilacs and pine.

Weeks before my mom passed, I sat with her and promised that I would add all these memories in this writing. Mom nodded and then said that she had a few more things to add, “just for old time sake,” she laughed. “Sunshine on my face, dew on my sneakers, garden soil on my knees, rain when it’s dry, a rake in my hands, my own vegetables to pick and a song in my heart.”

Nana also wanted everyone to know, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, that at any time she is just a thought away. “You think of me and I’ll be there,” she promised.

Mom is survived by her brother, Herbert York of Farmington and many extended family from all over that area; a son, Steven Davis and Gail of Naples, grandchildren Adam Davis and wife Katie of Windham, Julia Davis Cherubino and husband Steven, of North Carolina and three supernatural great- grandchildren, Grace Elinor Davis and Joan Marie Davis of Windham and Grant Robert Cherubino of N.C.

There will be a celebration of Nana’s life later this spring at the Riverside Cemetery in Dixfield, just a stone’s throw away from that little white house on Kidder Avenue where we all grew up.

I welcome your memories and stories on Mom’s Tribute Wall at www.hallfuneralhome.net.