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Obituary of J. Edwin Davies Jr. , 79

Name of Deceased J. Edwin Davies Jr.
Age 79
Date of Death 10/28/2009
Date of Birth 01/29/1930
Funeral Home Koch Funeral Home

J. Edwin Davies, Jr., 79, of State College, died Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, at Mount Nittany Medical Center. Born Jan. 29, 1930, in Port Matilda, he was a son of the late Edwin J. and Doris Rippon Davies. On March 24, 1951, he married Mary Condina, who survives.

He was a 1947 graduate of Johnsonburg High School. He earned both his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Penn State. He served in the Air Force as a Staff Sergeant during the Korean War. He worked as an Electrical Engineer at H.R.B. Singer for 33 years, retiring in 1992.

He was a member of Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church in State College. He also belonged to the American Legion State College Post 245. He was a ham radio operator and a member of the Nittany Amateur Radio Club. He enjoyed reading. He was an avid gardener, grape grower and wine maker.

Along with his wife, he is survived by six children, Robert A. Davies and his companion Judi Fouse, of Annandale, Va., Jeffrey L. Davies and his wife, Irene, of Grapevine, Texas, James B.. Davies and his wife, Nancy, of Chester, Va., Mary Ann Steele and her husband, Jay, of Burnsville, Minn., William F. Davies and his wife, Elizabeth, of Annapolis, Md. and Cara Lynn Dugan and her husband, Mark Criss, of Mars, Pa.; ten grandchildren, Elizabeth Fath, Rebecca, Natalie, Stephen, Benjamin, and Emma Davies, Meagan and Ryan Steele, Reese Davies and Matthew Dugan; two great-grandsons, John Fath and Ethan Smitson; a sister Marilyn Stubber of Sherman, Texas, and a brother, Robert Vaughn Davies and his wife, Bertha Ann, of College Park, Md.

Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009, at Koch Funeral Home, 2401 S. Atherton St., State College. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 2, at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, with Monsignor David Lockard officiating. Burial will be in Pine Hall Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, 1332 N. Halsted St., Suite 201, Chicago, IL 60642-2642 or www.pulmonaryfibrosis.org.