Nora Eileen Davis, a beloved mother and accomplished attorney who touched scores of family and friends with her quiet warmth and inimitable wit, died on Friday, February 4, 2022, in Dallas, Texas. She was 47 years old.
A proud and chatty Irish American, voracious reader, student newspaper editor and art lover, Nora was above all her own person. She was born on May 26, 1974, in Great Neck, New York to Sheila K. and the late Patrick J. Davis, who had immigrated from Ireland. She would go on to spend a year in Dublin after graduating from Yale College, where she studied art history and was a news editor of the Yale Daily News. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy for high school and studied law at New York University.
Nora wore her many talents and fierce intellect lightly. As a young lawyer, she concealed the lightning-fast typing skills she had honed while amusing herself with a computer game in high school for fear she would be assigned clerical work. She left the white-shoe legal world of New York City for a career in Texas, where she was working as an Assistant General Counsel at CBRE at the time of her death. Nora’s strong opinions yielded to an intense curiosity about others, making her friends feel singularly loved and lucky in her presence.
Nora is survived by her mother, Sheila K. Davis, her sister, Katrina Weir-Kahn, and her three children, Lucy, Gabe and Charlie.
Memorial contributions may be made to The Ireland Funds https://irelandfunds.org/
or to the Wyonegonic Camps Camper Scholarship https://wyonegonic.com/giving/scholarship/
