Evelyn Hickman Davis

Published 10:53 am Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Funeral services for Evelyn Hickman Davis of Brookhaven are Friday, July 1, 2016, at 10 a.m. at Riverwood Family Funeral Service with burial at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church Cemetery.

Visitation is Thursday, June 30, 2016, from 5 until 8 p.m. at Riverwood.

Mrs. Davis, 100, died Sunday, June 26, 2016, at Brook Manor Nursing Home. She was born Dec. 26, 1915, to T. W. “Tom” Hickman and Ruby Applewhite Hickman.

Mrs. Davis was born and raised in the Mt. Moriah Community where she attended Mt. Moriah School and was an active member of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church for many years. She served as a Sunday school teacher, WMU leader, associational WMU director and in many other capacities. She graduated from Brookhaven High School in 1933 and was excited to attend her 80^th high school reunion in 2014. Mrs. Davis graduated from William Carey College in 1937 with a bachelor’s degree and double major in English and French. She began her teaching career at Union Church Boarding School where she lived and taught for several years. During this time she met her husband of 62 years, Lester Leland Davis. The couple lived in New Orleans where Mr. Davis was stationed in WW II, and returned to Brookhaven when the war ended. After being a stay-at-home mom to daughter, Kathy, she began teaching again in 1959 as a fifth-grade teacher at Brookhaven Elementary School and then at Fannie Mullins School in the early ‘70s.  Teaching was her passion. Mrs. Davis also lived to serve and honor her Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.

Preceding her in death were her parents; husband, Lester Davis; one brother, T. W. “Billy” Hickman; and one sister, Claribel Sellers.

Survivors are her daughter, Katherine Davis Walker; two grandsons, Christopher Shaun Walker and wife, Rivers, of Jackson and Matthew Christian Walker and wife, Barbara, of Brookhaven; four grandchildren, Campbell Leland Walker, Carolina Rivers Walker, Christopher Joseph Walker and Leland Matthew Walker; a host of nieces and nephews; and very special friends, Janie Buitt and Jimmy Nations.

If you would like to leave a word of sympathy to the Davis family, you may do so at www.riverwoodfamily.com.