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.