June Davis, who started treatment program for women, dies at 76 January 13, 2021 5:13pm Text size Copy shortlink:
By the time she d met her future husband, June Marie Fiksdal had already transformed her early years working in her family s Rochester, Minn., flower shop into an international reputation for exquisite floral design. But more than a decade after marrying Merrill N. Davis III, she went through another transformation from an alcoholic unable to find treatment in Rochester to founder of a program that s helped more than 3,000 women.
After being forced to go to Minneapolis to start her own path to sobriety, June Davis founded the Gables treatment center in a Tudor-style mansion on Rochester s renowned Pill Hill in 1983.