Nellie W Davis

Forest Home School presents Christmas program. 
The Ithaca Journal, Dec 23 1943 P. 4

"The Forest Home School recently presented its annual Christmas program of songs, carols, and rhythm band selections, under the direction of an Ithaca College student, who also played two saxophone solos.
  After the musical selections, pupils of the primary grades, under the direction of the teacher, Mrs. Nellie Davis, gave Yuletide recitations and a dramatization of a part from "Pinocchio." The intermediate students also recited and presented a play, "Anne's Christmas Presents," based on the book, "Anne of Green Gables." Miss Myrtle E. Upright directed.
  A flute solo of Christmas carols was given by Mrs. Trevor Teele. There was a Christmas tree, from which gifts and candy were distributed."

Conveyance documents for the purchase and sale of 214 Forest Home Drive by Nellie W Davis are not reflected in the list of owners in the Appendix to "Free Hollow to Forest Home" by Liese Bronfenbrenner (1974).  They can be found through the Tompkins County Clerk Online Services.

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Extract from On Childhood in Forest Home
By Randolph Scott Little

"After “graduating” from Cornell’s nursery school, I attended kindergarten through third grades in the Forest Home School, which is now the Cornell Plantations headquarters.  It had two classrooms on the upper level and a gymnasium below.  Mrs. Davis, Nellie Davis, was our teacher.  She lived at 214 Forest Home Drive across from what is now the Forest Home Park."

Open House Planned by Varna Parent-Teacher Association. The Ithaca Journal, Sep 19 1951. P. 4

"The Varna Parent-Teacher Association will have an 'open House' at the Varna Community Center at 8 p.m. Thursday for all members and friends.
  Mrs, George Wright of Geneva, Finger Lakes District director, Mrs. Guy Bowles of Geneva, past district director, and Mrs. Nellie Davis, Varna teacher, will be guests.
  The program committee will present entertainment and refreshments will be served. Hostesses will be Mrs. Mary Potter, Mrs. Joan Taylor and Mrs. Ernestine Ballardini."

Obituary for Nellie W. Davis
The Ithaca Journal, Nov 30 1961, P.3

"Mrs. Nellie W. Davis, 74, of 427 N. Cayuga St., died today, Nov 30, 1961, at Tompkins County Hospital.
  The widow of David B. Davis she is survived by a son, Richard W. Davis of Ithaca.
  Mrs. Davis, a graduate of the Oneonta Normal School, had taught for over 40 years in the state and had spent 22 of those years in the Ithaca Public School system. In 1954 she retired but continued to substitute teach until poor health forced her to resign in 1960."

Nellie Warner Davis

DoB: 23 Apr 1887
PoB: New York
Died: 30 Nov 1961, Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York
Buried: East Lawn Cemetery, Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York