Geneva E. Smith Davis

Published 5:00 am Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Services for Geneva E. Smith Davis, of Gilmer, Texas, are 10a.m. today, Oct. 26 at Harrigill Funeral Home with burial in NewSalem Cemetery in Franklin County.

Visitation was Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Davis, 89, died Oct. 23, 2005, at the Bradford HouseAssisted Living Home in Gilmer, following a brief illness. She wasborn in Franklin County on Jan. 27, 1916, to John Allen and LucySmith.

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She was a nurse. While in Brookhaven she worked for Dr. HiramBatson and King’s Daughters Hospital. She attended New ProspectBaptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Willie LeeDavis; and a son, Willie Jewel Davis.

Survivors are her daughter-in-law, Juanita Davis, of Diana,Texas; her two grandsons, Jim Davis, of Longview, Texas, and JerryDavis, of Diana; and five great-grandchildren, John Davis, of SanAntonio, Texas, Lindsey Davis, of Memphis, Tenn., Graham Davis, ofSan Antonio, and Hayden Davis and Trent Davis, both of Diana.