Business of the Year

Valley Furniture

Don and Gertrude Davis opened Valley Furniture in 1957. Starting out repairing and selling used televisions, Don later expanded the product line to include other electronics; in 1965 they added appliances, and in 1970 a full line of furniture. In 1999, their son Scott moved back to Portales to help with the store. Scott has been managing the business for three years now.

“You have to give back no matter what size community you live in,” explained Scott. “The University is extremely important to Portales not just economically but socially and culturally too.” The Davis family firmly believes that Portales and the public school system would be very different if ENMU didn’t call Portales home.

Valley Furniture believes in supporting the community. The family has been consistently generous to ENMU for many years supporting KENW-TV, Bench Club, Friends of Music and ENMU. Valley Furniture is a Charter Member of Foundation Flagships (a corporate giving club for the ENMU Foundation). They enjoy supporting various projects for both the public school and ENMU student organizations. “The decisions we make at the store affect many families,” stated Scott. And the contributions they have made to the community have had a dynamic effect on even more families in the region. “Where would KENW and ENMU be” asked Scott, “if it wasn’t for the additional support from the community?”

The family is also dedicated to volunteering. Scott is a Deacon at Brazos Street Church of Christ in Portales, and he is a member of the Portales Rotary Club and President of Crime Stoppers. Don and Gertrude spend most of their year helping to rebuild churches and homes hit with disasters via the New Mexico Men’s Baptist Association. Don has been to New Orleans six times and has recently been helping to rebuild a church in Las Cruces and homes in Hatch, NM.