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Updated: 06 Sep 2009
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PEDRO, MADGE
Sapulpa Herald, Creek Co., OK
12-30-90
Former Sapulpa resident Madge E. Davenport Pedro, 88, died Monday at Rosewood
Nursing Home in Stillwater.
Services were held Thursday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church with the Rev. Daniel
Keohane officiating.
Burial was in Fairlawn Cemetery under the direction of Strode Funeral Home,
Stillwater.
She was born June 20, 1902, in Yale. She received her teaching certificate in
1921, and received a bachelor's degree in Edmond in 1951 and a master's degree
in 1975 from the University of New Mexico.
Mrs. Pedro taught at Catholic and public schools in Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona
and Santa Maria, Calif. She taught for 18 years at the Navajo Indian Reservation
at Pueblo Pintato,New Mexico, with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She retired in
1979 after teaching for more than 50 years.
She was the only woman to work at the Dupont Powder Works ammunition plant at
Fort Lewis, Wash., during World War II. She also Worked as a nurse in Madagan
Army Hospital at Fort Lewis.
She was preceded in death by sons Joseph Davenport in 1939, Jerry Davenport in
1948 and Robert Davenport in 1986.
Survivors include son James Davenport of Stillwater and LeRoy Davenport of
Sapulpa; 15 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
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