REBA D. DAISY

Reba Dean Daisy, 85, of Watervliet, died Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025, at The Timbers of Cass County in Dowagiac, with her loved ones by her side.

Services celebrating her life will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, at the Florin Funeral and Cremation Services in Fairplain. Burial will follow the service in Maple Hill Cemetery in Hartford. The visitation will be from 10 until 11 a.m. on Saturday at the Fairplain Chapel. Memorials may be made to the family. Please share messages and memories at www.florin.net.

Reba was born on Aug. 27, 1940, in Truman, Arkansas, to Dill and Elsie Hammons. She worked along with her parents and siblings as a migrant worker. Her father was a sharecropper and Reba helped with taking produce to market, planting, and picking cotton in Arkansas. The family then moved to Michigan for the harvest season here, picking strawberries, blueberries, and other fruit. They lived in a one-room cabin on the farm. At age 18, she married her first husband, and father of her children. When that marriage ended, she married her second husband, Walter Daisy. She lost him in 1997 to a heart attack. She worked at Grand Tran and Assembly Components until she retired. She never married again. She lived independently after her son married and left her home of 52 years on Paw Paw Avenue in Watervliet. She enjoyed dancing and playing bingo until both got too difficult for her failing body. She lived a long life and was blessed with a big, beautiful family that she loved beyond measure.

Reba’s family members are her daughter, Teresa (Bobby) Wagner, of Dowagiac, her son, Chris (Nancy) Harrell, of Hartford; her grandchildren, Richard Reese (who is expecting his first child-granddaughter Olive), Tara Kremer, and Angela Huff; her great-grandchildren, Maxwell Kremer, Bryson Reese, Scarlet Huff, and Tallulah Huff; and her sisters, Shirley (Junior) Mann and Bonnie Mills, along with many nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her son, Rocky Harrell; her husband, Walt Daisy; her parents, Dill and Elsie Hammons; her siblings, John Thomas and his wife Glenda, Noma Kring, Norman Troy and his wife Estell Hammons, Lola Barr, Janice and Joe Rich, Danny (Bud) and Judy, Bob Wayne and his wife Diane, and three others taken as children, Bobby, Martha, and Helen.