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Van met Jean "Davy" Palmer Davis during his junior year at Wabash. She was born in [[Hackensack, New Jersey]], on July 24, 1914,<ref>Ship's manifest, President Coolidge, May 1941, "Honolulu, Hawaii Passenger & Crew Lists, 1900–1969", National Archives, at www.ancestry.com.</ref> the daughter of [[The Reverend|Reverend]] Staley Franklin Davis (1877–1926),<ref>Sinclair, Donald, and Helen Maher. ''A New Jersey Biographical Index''. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993.</ref> a prominent [[Methodist]] minister, and his wife Helen Larter (Fredericks) Davis (1885–1950), a teacher.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> Staley Davis was a native of [[Pataskala]], Ohio, and Helen Davis of Newark, NJ. Davy's sister Helen Marjorie (1908–1991) was six years older and her brother Donald three years younger.