Harriet Hunter Brown Davis was born on Aug 29, 1919 in Fort Snelling Minnesota, 4th child and first girl to "Pal" and Margaret Brown. She had 3 older brothers, Colin, Robert and Donald, and 2 younger sisters, Marian and Betty. Her father Pal was semi-professional boxer and coach, and her mother Margaret was a teacher. She spent her early childhood in the Minnesota woods and lakes on the family homestead, went to a one room school, and thanks to her brothers and Dad's coaching, was the bare-knuckle champ of her age group at school. Later the family moved to St. Paul and she gave up boxing at age 12 when she fought a girl for the first time because she said girls didn't fight fair. Harriet was an energetic, cheerful girl with a large and loyal group of friends, many of whom stayed in contact with her throughout their lifetimes. She was always blessed with a gift for friendship, understanding and guiding people towards their best selves that made her life and those of her friends and family richer. There was an interest in music too, she sang with her sisters and played the cornet in high school, guitar and at parties the gut-bucket with great enthusiasm. Harriet learned great responsibility early as her mother suffered from spells of illness and as the eldest girl had to run the household for her Mom. Due to the generosity of one of her teachers and her aunt Maud, Harriet was able to go to Macalester College in St. Paul and graduated with a degree in Medical Technology. During World War II, she came west to Washington to a job as a medical and x-ray tech in a hospital in Everett. After the war she took a job at the Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley California, where she met and fell in love with John Davis while building a stereo set. They were married on December 11, 1948 and lived the first years of their marriage in the Bay area. Harriet and John had a daughter Gail in 1951 and a son Brian in 1953. The family moved eventually to Chatsworth in the San Fernando Valley near LA, where John was a nuclear engineer and Harriet a stay-at-home Mom. Some of their favorite activities included road and camping trips around California with friends and the Sierra Club. John's expertise with hot labs led to an adventurous offer to live in West Germany and consult for a nuclear research center in Juelich, Nord-Rhein Westfalen. So in 1963, the family packed up and moved to West Germany for 3 years, a most challenging, fascinating, trying and ultimately invaluable experience. In 1966 Harriet and John moved back to the US so their kids could go to American high school and ended up in Kennewick, Washington, where they discovered the river, boats, and the Clover Island Yacht Club. They greatly enjoyed their trips with friends there and remained members for the rest of their lives. Harriet went back to work in the 1970s as an adoption counsellor for Catholic Family and Child Service. After 20 years as a social worker she retired from there in the 1990s and promptly went back to work for Kennewick General as an out-patient counsellor, where John also volunteered in the Radiation Lab after he retired from Rockwell. She retired again in the early 2000s and this time it stuck, so she concentrated her considerable energy on making a wonderful home for John, family and friends. John passed away in 2006 and Harriet continued to live in her home with the help and support of her son Brian until she joined John on February 25, 2016. Harriet is survived by her son Brian, daughter Gail Rice, son-in-law Paul Rice, grandson Joe Rice and wife Kristi, great grandchildren Jackson, Henry, and Kate; granddaughter Julie Lemburg and husband Scott, great grandsons Matthew and Jacob. A memorial celebration for Harriet is being planned for April 2, 2016 at the Clover Island Yacht Club from 1 to 4pm.