Larry Hammer wrote this tribute to his friend Ron:
We lost another class mate on September 3, 2016. Ron Davis passed after a valiant battle for 13 years with various cancers. Dee and I visited him and his wife Marsha in Sun City, AZ in 2012 where we found out that his oncologist had taken an aggressive approach to treatments and had removed a number of internal plumbing parts among other things. He was however in good spirits as we reminisced on times we spent together at Westside and as fraternity brothers at Omaha University. He even chuckled as I observed that he really had become a “gutless wonder”. Just so you know we had often chided each other as such in our youth.
Ron came to Omaha in the summer of 1960 and I was first introduced to him by a couple of new juniors that were working out at the gym with a few of the basketball players from our class. John Lukason and Bob Garrett said they had met this tall skinny red head who worked in the coffee shop at the Town House Motel and I should go with them to talk him into coming to our workouts (key words, “He’s Tall”). We became good friends and enjoyed a lot of time being together.
Ron didn’t venture too far from Omaha after he completed his degrees and ended up in Corning, Iowa where he was school psychologist from 1973 until his retirement in 2000. He had moved to Sun City to be closer to his aging parents where he really enjoyed not having to mow the gravel in his yard. He and Marsha had fairly recently celebrated 50 years of married life, a goal he strived to achieve I’m certain.
Ron will be missed mostly by Marsha and their children Julie and Lee, but certainly also by close friends and associates. His relaxed demeanor and sense of humor endeared him to most anyone he met.
Linda Siert (Johnson)
Larry Hammer wrote this tribute to his friend Ron:
We lost another class mate on September 3, 2016. Ron Davis passed after a valiant battle for 13 years with various cancers. Dee and I visited him and his wife Marsha in Sun City, AZ in 2012 where we found out that his oncologist had taken an aggressive approach to treatments and had removed a number of internal plumbing parts among other things. He was however in good spirits as we reminisced on times we spent together at Westside and as fraternity brothers at Omaha University. He even chuckled as I observed that he really had become a “gutless wonder”. Just so you know we had often chided each other as such in our youth.
Ron came to Omaha in the summer of 1960 and I was first introduced to him by a couple of new juniors that were working out at the gym with a few of the basketball players from our class. John Lukason and Bob Garrett said they had met this tall skinny red head who worked in the coffee shop at the Town House Motel and I should go with them to talk him into coming to our workouts (key words, “He’s Tall”). We became good friends and enjoyed a lot of time being together.
Ron didn’t venture too far from Omaha after he completed his degrees and ended up in Corning, Iowa where he was school psychologist from 1973 until his retirement in 2000. He had moved to Sun City to be closer to his aging parents where he really enjoyed not having to mow the gravel in his yard. He and Marsha had fairly recently celebrated 50 years of married life, a goal he strived to achieve I’m certain.
Ron will be missed mostly by Marsha and their children Julie and Lee, but certainly also by close friends and associates. His relaxed demeanor and sense of humor endeared him to most anyone he met.
Robert Reigle
Ron was a great person and classmate. Just now seeing this announcement. RIP Ron.