Leila Davis, of Bowling Green, was born 98 years ago in Alupka, the Ukraine. Alupka is 11 miles west of Yalta, and is the site of the famous World War II summit of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin.
This is a memoir compiled from journals and stories Leila has written about her life.
“I married Corporal Ralph O. Davis in Germany after World War II and came to America as a war bride. In 1947, we moved to Bowling Green so my husband could go to Western on the GI Bill. At that time, Bowling Green was so small there were only two banks, three lawyers and four restaurants."

". . . If God blesses me with another year, I am already thinking about the butternut squash that I am going to grow."

Leila Davis lived to age 100. She lived everyday with a glad heart and a cheerful spirit. Her wish was to be home at her beloved farm where in her last days, she was surrounded by her daughters singing her favorite songs and reading from this very book, the stories she wrote of her rich and inspiring life.