Dorothy “Dot” Davis – a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother - passed away peacefully on January 13th, 2021, one of the brightest stars to be dimmed by the COVID virus and Alzheimer’s disease.
She was reunited with her high-school sweetheart and devoted husband of 66 years, Ronald E. Davis.
Ron and Dot Davis shared an incredible life together raising four children. This is their loving tribute to their mother:
Our mother was born and raised in Hapeville, Georgia. She attended Hapeville High School and continued her education at Georgia State College for Women located in Milledgeville, Georgia, earning a degree in business administration in 1951. Upon graduation, she was a schoolteacher in Atlanta before she and our father married on July 1st, 1951. Their new life together took them to various US Air Force bases, including Rochester, New York and Biloxi, Mississippi. While our father was deployed to Europe, our parents exchanged love photos and letters filled with love and anticipation of his return. Soon after our father’s return, the greatest accomplishment of their life began: raising a family. For the next several decades, our mother focused on providing a loving, comforting, and supportive home for not only us but for the future generations of family.
Our mother put her heart and soul into raising her family, and her success is evident in the close-knit, loving relationship we all have now. She taught us the beauty of gardening and working with our hands; the joy of competition through tennis; the thrill of hunting for antiques; and, most importantly the rewards of sitting around the dinner table as a family.
In the early 1960s, our mother and father created a loving second home for our family in Montreat, NC. Our mother made our mountain house a home to many. Even now, generations later, our family continues to retreat to Montreat. When we all gather on the porch, we feel their love, hard-work, and dedication to our family as the newest generation of great grandchildren run around – just as our mother would have wanted.
Our mother was also a woman of strong Christian faith and active in her church. She and our father were charter members of Providence Presbyterian Church in Chamblee, Georgia in 1964 and spent their last years as members of Kingswood United Methodist Church in Dunwoody, Georgia.
Our hearts are broken to have lost such a wonderful mother, grandmother, and great grandmother but we find comfort in knowing she has now been reunited in heaven with her parents, Toy and Pauline Hansard; her brother William Hansard (killed in action, 1945); and our father, her husband, Ronald Davis (10 February 2017.)
Dot is survived by son Kenneth and daughter-in-law Miriam Davis of Alpharetta, Georgia; son David and son-in-law Paul Lee of London, England; daughter Nancy and son-in-law John Cann of Anderson, South Carolina; son Troy and daughter-in-law Julie Davis of Covington, Georgia; eight grandchildren (Mark, Kate, Elizabeth, Nancy Caroline, MaryRuth, Sandy, Rebecca, and Aaron); four great-grandchildren (Charlotte, Georgia Reid, Maddie, and Davis.)
A celebration of Dot’s life and motherhood will take place when safe to gather.
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