Laura Davis

Laura Brinkerhoff Davis, daughter of Leslie and Sara Brinkerhoff, was born November 13, 1979, in Neuchatel, Switzerland. As a child of missionary parents, she fell in love with Africa, its people, and its culture of community and friendliness, which she continued to show to everyone she met. She never met a stranger. She completed most of her schooling in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso except for the occasional return to Texas. Returning to the U.S. her senior year, she both graduated from Duncanville High School in 1998 and met the future love of her life, Andrew Davis. She then graduated from Dallas Baptist University in 2002 with a Bachelors in Elementary Education. One of her favorite professors, Dr. Deborah McCollister, called Laura her “grand student.” After teaching in Midlothian for three years, she saw the need to help kids more than just academically, so she returned to DBU for her Masters in Counseling in 2010, later obtaining her License in Professional Counseling and almost completing her Marriage and Family Licensure before passing. Laura was united in marriage to Andrew Davis in June of 2001. The stars in her eyes were her three children: Nicole, Mikaela, and Brenan. At the time of her death, Laura was both a homemaker raising her “little man” Brenan at home and a counselor at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church where Dr. Guy Earle was both a mentor and resource when she needed help advising a client. She had also worked at Children First Counseling where she had such loving and helpful friends and counselors. At a young age, she accepted Christ in her heart, and she became a “firecracker” demonstrating both her passion to love people and to point people to where she got her joy of life from. Her Christian life was as beautiful as the sunsets that she loved, and her legacy and passion will influence those that have known her. She was an active member of Grace Community Church, constantly loving on and praying for people. She was a fighter after being diagnosed with colon cancer in April of 2016. She was much loved by Dr. Anna Toker and her staff as well as Dr. Revathi Angitapalli and her infusion team. It was with much surprise and heartbreak that she left us to return to her Father in Heaven, whole and painfree, on January 1st, 2017. She may have lost a physical battle with cancer, but she had already won the war having given her soul and her life to the One who has conquered over sin and death, Jesus. Laura’s beautiful life will forever be cherished in the lives of her husband, Andrew, and their three children. Life without her will not be the same for her parents Leslie and Sara Brinkerhoff, siblings Samuel and his wife Joanna Brinkerhoff, and sister Linda Stevenson with fiance Kevin Young, nor for her parents-in-law Reid and Jan Davis, brother and sister Joel and Becky Davis. Furthermore, she will be missed by her uncles Larry (and Cami) and David (and Tina) Robbins, aunt Anna-Jo (and Al) Adan, and the whole extended Robbins and Davis families