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Velma Leta Owen Davis

Birth
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
Death
Oct 2005 (aged 73)
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Burial
Lampasas, Lampasas County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Velma Davis was born November 19, 1931 in Houston, Texas to Leon Edgar Owen and Velma Miller Owen. A 1949 graduate of Bertram High School, she received her Bachelors Degree in Education from Mary Hardin Baylor College in 1953. She later earned her Masters Degree in Special Education from the Texas Women's University. She married Allan Don Davis on August 29, 1952 in Bertram. Mrs. Davis was widowed in 1993.

Velma Davis was a retired Texas school teacher.
She taught the handicapped in the Baytown Texas School District, where her late husband had also been an educator. Velma Davis was a lifetime member of the Texas State Teachers Association.

Survivors include three sons: Frank Davis of Austin, Texas, Nathan Davis and wife, Frances, of Austin, Lee Davis and wife, Flo, of Ada, Ohio; three grandchildren: Jason, Matthew, and Kim Davis; one brother, Henry Owen and wife Dot of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and by one sister, Dr. Margaret A. Owens, of Austin.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and an infant daughter, Tina Davis. Funeral services for Velma Owen Davis will be held at 2:00 P.M. Tuesday, November 1, 2005 at Briggs-Gamel-Wilcox Funeral Home Chapel with Reverand Keith Owens officiating. Internment will follow at the Davis Ranch Cemetery near Adamsville, Texas.
Velma Davis was born November 19, 1931 in Houston, Texas to Leon Edgar Owen and Velma Miller Owen. A 1949 graduate of Bertram High School, she received her Bachelors Degree in Education from Mary Hardin Baylor College in 1953. She later earned her Masters Degree in Special Education from the Texas Women's University. She married Allan Don Davis on August 29, 1952 in Bertram. Mrs. Davis was widowed in 1993.

Velma Davis was a retired Texas school teacher.
She taught the handicapped in the Baytown Texas School District, where her late husband had also been an educator. Velma Davis was a lifetime member of the Texas State Teachers Association.

Survivors include three sons: Frank Davis of Austin, Texas, Nathan Davis and wife, Frances, of Austin, Lee Davis and wife, Flo, of Ada, Ohio; three grandchildren: Jason, Matthew, and Kim Davis; one brother, Henry Owen and wife Dot of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and by one sister, Dr. Margaret A. Owens, of Austin.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and an infant daughter, Tina Davis. Funeral services for Velma Owen Davis will be held at 2:00 P.M. Tuesday, November 1, 2005 at Briggs-Gamel-Wilcox Funeral Home Chapel with Reverand Keith Owens officiating. Internment will follow at the Davis Ranch Cemetery near Adamsville, Texas.


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