Katherine E. Davis died peacefully on January 8, 2025, after suffering a stroke on Cape Cod. She was born April 12, 1955, to Irving Kirk Smith and Eva Muller Smith in Bergen County, New Jersey, and grew up there with her siblings during the 1960s. As a teenager, she moved with the
family to the Connecticut River Valley in Haverhill, NH. Throughout her youth and her adult life, she loved the outdoors, had a sense of adventure, and took on challenges. She met the adversities of her life with hard work, hope and a unique approach that often defied expectations.

After high school she worked as an automobile mechanic, drove a distinctive red, white, and blue pickup truck, and began renovating an old house in Groton, NH. She married Jeffrey Davis, with whom she had her only child, Trevis. She studied Culinary Arts in Berlin, NH but changed career paths after an injury. Cooking nutritious and flavorful food was a lifelong pleasure. As a single mother she moved to the Concord, New Hampshire area.

In time she studied at Franklin Pierce University. Upon graduation, she began a new career in social work at the Disability Rights Center in Concord, advocating for people with disabilities. Her special interest was mental health and for several years she was the Program Director at Concord Peer Support.

She made the Concord area home for at least 30 years, taking advantage of the rivers, lakes, and state parks in the vicinity; sharing her love of the outdoors with her beloved canine companions, Josh and Phenix. Katherine had an artistic, private, and independent spirit. She was sensitive to the suffering and injustices in the world but also cultivated joy as well by appreciating the gifts of color, natural beauty, creativity (gardening, poetry), and spirituality. She found hope in the Jehovah's Witness faith that there will be a world without suffering.
In 2021 she moved to Cape Cod to be closer to the beach, which she loved, and to enjoy nature with the years left to her. She took a job at Dune's Edge Campground in Provincetown.

She was preceded in death by her father, mother, her sister Anne, and her nephew David Irving Smith. Katherine is survived by her son, Trevis Kirk Davis of (VT), and her siblings, Helen (NYC), Tony (NH), George (CO), Bonne (MA), Dana (CA), Charles (MA) as well as many nieces and nephews, relations by marriage, and dear friends in Concord.

A private Celebration of Life will be held in June 2025 for family and friends.

Donations in her memory will be appreciated, to either
One Peer to Another
PO Box 304
Laconia New Hampshire 03246
Memo line: "For Concord Location"

Or

Vinfen
Attn: David Brown
950 Cambridge St
Cambridge, MA 02141
"HOET" in the memo line will direct funds to a Cape Cod program.
Most importantly, volunteering or in-kind contributions to local food pantries, or at homeless and disability programs are welcome everywhere. Katherine had a big heart for the neediest people who surround us all.