Natalie Davis died yesterday of natural causes at the age of 93 years old.

She was born to

parents Gaye and Randy Davis on February 14th, 2000 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Natalie’s

childhood was divided between three different states, but she would tell anyone who asked that

she grew up in Texas. She loved all things psychology and had a career in psychology for many

years. Natalie’s joyful personality and always caring attitude will be missed.

Natalie was born in Oklahoma where she continued to live in Perry with her loving stay-

at-home mother, caring father, and protective older brother until she was four years old. When

she was almost five Natalie’s father got a new job in Tennessee, so they packed up and moved to

beautiful Tennessee. In her time living in Tennessee Natalie’s brother was diagnosed with

autism. This diagnosis changed everything in Natalie’s life. Watching as her parents took care of

her brother bothered her because they were not paying as much attention to her, but it also taught

her how to play on her own. Her family was always very close so as Natalie’s brother got older

and the struggle of finding the right therapist and medicine for him continued they only grew

closer as a family.

When Natalie was eight years old her father got another new job, but this time in Texas.

After moving to Texas Natalie started to experience extreme anxiety, with new terrible friends

and a terrible new school this was bound to happen. Natalie changed schools three times just

while in elementary school. Natalie’s mom had been homeschooling her brother for several years

and decided that Natalie needed to be homeschooled as well. During this time Natalie continued

to struggle with anxiety but her amazing church and church friends helped her. When Natalie

was eleven years old she met her life long best friend, Gianna. Gianna was two years younger

but they played and did everything together.

 When Natalie was going to be a sophomore in high school she decided to go back to

school, so she attended a private Christian school for the remainder of her high school career.

This was the time that Natalie grew the most into who she was, but life experiences and still

dealing with her extreme anxiety caused her to fall into a deep depression. Natalie did not want

to admit to anyone that something was wrong and because of that she wanted to die, but Natalie

grew up in the church and knew if God did not have a purpose for her life she would not still be

alive. When Natalie was sixteen years old, a junior in high school, she studied anxiety disorders

in her favorite class (psychology) and realized that what she was feeling was not normal, so she

finally decided to get help for her debilitating anxiety and over whelming depression. After two

years of psychology classes in high school, Natalie knew what she wanted to study and do for the

rest of her life was psychology, so she planned on attending Oklahoma State University to do

just that. Anyone who knew Natalie knew how often she procrastinated, so the day before her

freshman orientation at OSU she decided to attend Oklahoma Christian University instead.

At first OC was just what she wanted, she loved her roommate and being away from

home but towards the end of the first semester of her freshman year of college her anxiety began

to take over her life once more. She also had an ongoing fight against sever migraines, so

between being too anxious to go to class and not feeling like going, Christmas break came as a

much-needed relief. As per usual Natalie procrastinated and did not tell her parents she wanted to

drop out of OC until the last possible second, but being the amazing parents they were they

understood. Her mom helped her enroll (on the last possible day) in Northern Oklahoma College

in Stillwater, Oklahoma which is the town that her parents had recently moved to. Natalie moved

back home for her second semester of her freshman year, got help for her migraines and her
joyful spirit was renewed. At the age of twenty two Natalie finally overcame her anxiety and was

able to live the rest of her life without ever letting the anxiety take over again.

Natalie continued to fall in love with psychology throughout her college years and even

went on to get a PhD in psychology. After her first four years of college Natalie got married to

the love of her life, Koby who she had been dating for all four years. Natalie and Koby decided

to wait to have kids so that Natalie could enjoy her career for a few years. Once Natalie got

pregnant at thirty years old she decided to do what her own mother did and became a stay at

home mom until her kids had graduated high school. After both of her kids flew the nest, Natalie

decided to go back to work. Natalie worked in an elementary school as a counselor until she

retired at the age of sixty. After retiring Natalie’s favorite thing to do was to spend time with her

grandkids, and travel with her loving husband. As everyone who knew her knows, Natalie never

had to worry if the things she did she did made a difference in the world. Through her loving

character, fun personality, and amazing sense of humor that lasted until her last day, she touched

many people’s lives by making them smile.