Derold Lowell Davis Obituary

Derold Lowell Noland, Jr., - Davis passed away peacefully at home on April 24, 2024, with the love of his life, Charlotte, and his brother, Mike, and his wife Cecie, by his side. Derold was born on March 11, 1942 in Park Rapids, MN, the son of Derold Noland and Doris (Saathoff). Derold's father passed away in an accident when he was 3 years old. His Mother remarried Harry James Davis. Derold's family moved around throughout Minnesota and finally ended up in Faribault where he graduated from high school in 1960.

On May 17, 1975, he was united in marriage to the love of his life, Charlotte Ann Nelson. They resided in Elk River, MN for a number of years but then moved to Maple Grove, MN where they resided until they both were retired by 2016. From there they sold their townhome and moved to live at their dream come true, their place at Lake Placid in Pillager, MN. (which they refer to as their little piece of heaven on earth). They bought this property in 1985 to start getting it ready for retirement and have lived there for almost 40 years.

They would have been married 50 years in 2025. Derold enjoyed going out to Colorado to go elk hunting with his brother, Jim, and brother-in-laws and father-in-law from Wisconsin. He also loved to golf, shoot trap and skeet with his brother, Mike, go fishing in Lake Superior and ice fishing in our Lake Placid, loved his gardening and taking extra, good care of his lawn. But his pride and joy was the winemaking that he did and always shared with everyone, especially the 3:00 Boy's Club! He was also the score keeper and manager of the 3:00 bowling scores for the neighborhood bowling league.

He was pretty even-tempered about things unless it came to politics, then you saw the other side of him as he was a staunch Republican as I'm sure many of you knew!! His faith was very important to him and he is home now with our dear Lord. A memorial service for Derold will be held at 11:00AM on Friday, May 10th, 2024, at the Motley Free Methodist Church with Pastor Jim Johnson officiating. A gathering of family and friends will start at 10:00AM. Derold loved his country and was proud to enlist in the Army in June 1962, for 3 years as a Spec E4, Air Defense, First Class Missileman, and was honorably discharged in June 1965.

In lieu of flowers, Memorials will be dedicated to Derold's wishes.