Davis, Jon S. Age 70, of Hingham died July 14 of glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer.
Adored husband of 46 years of Jane Carmen Davis, formerly of Newton, exemplary father of Hadley Davis Rierson and Carrie Davis Lebovich of Los Angeles, and a cornerstone of both his extended family and the Massachusetts real estate legal community.
Born in Ottawa Hills, Ohio, he was a graduate of the University of Michigan and president of its class of 1965. He earned a law degree from the George Washington National Law Center and while there was a staff member of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Kerner Commission. In 1968, he and Jane joined the Peace Corps moving to Quito, Ecuador.
He later founded the real estate firm Driscoll & Davis, renamed Stanton & Davis in Marshfield. A member of the Abstract Club, he served as president and board member of the American Legal & Financial Association and the Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts (REBA). He was a founding board member of the Talking Information Center, a Marshfield nonprofit providing broadcasts for the visually impaired. An avid golfer, he looked forward to summer days at the Cohasset Golf Club.
In addition to his wife and daughters, he is survived by his brother, Sam Davis of Berkeley, California, a sister, Beth Karren, of Piedmont, California and four grandchildren.
Donations in the memory of Jon Davis may be made to the Talking Information Center, 130 Enterprise Drive, Marshfield, MA 02050 or ticnetwork.org. Brezniak-Rodman Chapel brezniakrodman.com :FamilynOwned"
Published in The Boston Globe on July 15, 2014
Adored husband of 46 years of Jane Carmen Davis, formerly of Newton, exemplary father of Hadley Davis Rierson and Carrie Davis Lebovich of Los Angeles, and a cornerstone of both his extended family and the Massachusetts real estate legal community.
Born in Ottawa Hills, Ohio, he was a graduate of the University of Michigan and president of its class of 1965. He earned a law degree from the George Washington National Law Center and while there was a staff member of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Kerner Commission. In 1968, he and Jane joined the Peace Corps moving to Quito, Ecuador.
He later founded the real estate firm Driscoll & Davis, renamed Stanton & Davis in Marshfield. A member of the Abstract Club, he served as president and board member of the American Legal & Financial Association and the Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts (REBA). He was a founding board member of the Talking Information Center, a Marshfield nonprofit providing broadcasts for the visually impaired. An avid golfer, he looked forward to summer days at the Cohasset Golf Club.
In addition to his wife and daughters, he is survived by his brother, Sam Davis of Berkeley, California, a sister, Beth Karren, of Piedmont, California and four grandchildren.
Donations in the memory of Jon Davis may be made to the Talking Information Center, 130 Enterprise Drive, Marshfield, MA 02050 or ticnetwork.org. Brezniak-Rodman Chapel brezniakrodman.com :FamilynOwned"
Published in The Boston Globe on July 15, 2014
Davis, Jon S. Age 70, of Hingham died July 14 of glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer.
Adored husband of 46 years of Jane Carmen Davis, formerly of Newton, exemplary father of Hadley Davis Rierson and Carrie Davis Lebovich of Los Angeles, and a cornerstone of both his extended family and the Massachusetts real estate legal community.
Born in Ottawa Hills, Ohio, he was a graduate of the University of Michigan and president of its class of 1965. He earned a law degree from the George Washington National Law Center and while there was a staff member of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Kerner Commission. In 1968, he and Jane joined the Peace Corps moving to Quito, Ecuador.
He later founded the real estate firm Driscoll & Davis, renamed Stanton & Davis in Marshfield. A member of the Abstract Club, he served as president and board member of the American Legal & Financial Association and the Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts (REBA). He was a founding board member of the Talking Information Center, a Marshfield nonprofit providing broadcasts for the visually impaired. An avid golfer, he looked forward to summer days at the Cohasset Golf Club.
In addition to his wife and daughters, he is survived by his brother, Sam Davis of Berkeley, California, a sister, Beth Karren, of Piedmont, California and four grandchildren.
Donations in the memory of Jon Davis may be made to the Talking Information Center, 130 Enterprise Drive, Marshfield, MA 02050 or ticnetwork.org. Brezniak-Rodman Chapel brezniakrodman.com :FamilynOwned"
Published in The Boston Globe on July 15, 2014
Adored husband of 46 years of Jane Carmen Davis, formerly of Newton, exemplary father of Hadley Davis Rierson and Carrie Davis Lebovich of Los Angeles, and a cornerstone of both his extended family and the Massachusetts real estate legal community.
Born in Ottawa Hills, Ohio, he was a graduate of the University of Michigan and president of its class of 1965. He earned a law degree from the George Washington National Law Center and while there was a staff member of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Kerner Commission. In 1968, he and Jane joined the Peace Corps moving to Quito, Ecuador.
He later founded the real estate firm Driscoll & Davis, renamed Stanton & Davis in Marshfield. A member of the Abstract Club, he served as president and board member of the American Legal & Financial Association and the Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts (REBA). He was a founding board member of the Talking Information Center, a Marshfield nonprofit providing broadcasts for the visually impaired. An avid golfer, he looked forward to summer days at the Cohasset Golf Club.
In addition to his wife and daughters, he is survived by his brother, Sam Davis of Berkeley, California, a sister, Beth Karren, of Piedmont, California and four grandchildren.
Donations in the memory of Jon Davis may be made to the Talking Information Center, 130 Enterprise Drive, Marshfield, MA 02050 or ticnetwork.org. Brezniak-Rodman Chapel brezniakrodman.com :FamilynOwned"
Published in The Boston Globe on July 15, 2014
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