Professional baseball player in 1938. Pitcher for the Detroit Tigers.
US Navy veteran - WW II
ODUM -- W.W. "Babe" Davis, 86, died July 18 at Wayne Memorial Hospital in Jesup.
He was a native of Coffee County, a former resident of Nichols and lived in Odum the past 65 years. He attended Brewton-Parker College, played minor and major league baseball from 1931 to 1938. He was a member of the Major League Baseball Alumni Association and was founder of Babe's Mighty Mights boys and girls baseball and softball leagues of Wayne County.
He was a former employee of the Internal Revenue Service and retired in 1973 from the Alcohol and Tobacco Unit of the Georgia Department of Revenue with 25 years of service. He was a member of the Peace Officers Association of Georgia, the Odum Lions Club and an active member of Odum United Methodist Church.
He was a former mayor of Odum and a Navy veteran of World War II.
SURVIVORS: two daughters and sons-in-law, Ann D. and Ed Murphy of Odum and Ellen D. and Bobby Townsend of Jesup; two sisters, Gertie Clance of Nashville, Ga., and Ruby Winters of West Green; a half brother, Billie Davis of Valdosta; four grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
FUNERAL: 11 a.m. Tuesday at Gordon-Harrison Funeral Home, burial in Odum Cemetery. -Savannah Now, July 1999 (submitted by contributor Susan Barwick)
US Navy veteran - WW II
ODUM -- W.W. "Babe" Davis, 86, died July 18 at Wayne Memorial Hospital in Jesup.
He was a native of Coffee County, a former resident of Nichols and lived in Odum the past 65 years. He attended Brewton-Parker College, played minor and major league baseball from 1931 to 1938. He was a member of the Major League Baseball Alumni Association and was founder of Babe's Mighty Mights boys and girls baseball and softball leagues of Wayne County.
He was a former employee of the Internal Revenue Service and retired in 1973 from the Alcohol and Tobacco Unit of the Georgia Department of Revenue with 25 years of service. He was a member of the Peace Officers Association of Georgia, the Odum Lions Club and an active member of Odum United Methodist Church.
He was a former mayor of Odum and a Navy veteran of World War II.
SURVIVORS: two daughters and sons-in-law, Ann D. and Ed Murphy of Odum and Ellen D. and Bobby Townsend of Jesup; two sisters, Gertie Clance of Nashville, Ga., and Ruby Winters of West Green; a half brother, Billie Davis of Valdosta; four grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
FUNERAL: 11 a.m. Tuesday at Gordon-Harrison Funeral Home, burial in Odum Cemetery. -Savannah Now, July 1999 (submitted by contributor Susan Barwick)
Professional baseball player in 1938. Pitcher for the Detroit Tigers.
US Navy veteran - WW II
ODUM -- W.W. "Babe" Davis, 86, died July 18 at Wayne Memorial Hospital in Jesup.
He was a native of Coffee County, a former resident of Nichols and lived in Odum the past 65 years. He attended Brewton-Parker College, played minor and major league baseball from 1931 to 1938. He was a member of the Major League Baseball Alumni Association and was founder of Babe's Mighty Mights boys and girls baseball and softball leagues of Wayne County.
He was a former employee of the Internal Revenue Service and retired in 1973 from the Alcohol and Tobacco Unit of the Georgia Department of Revenue with 25 years of service. He was a member of the Peace Officers Association of Georgia, the Odum Lions Club and an active member of Odum United Methodist Church.
He was a former mayor of Odum and a Navy veteran of World War II.
SURVIVORS: two daughters and sons-in-law, Ann D. and Ed Murphy of Odum and Ellen D. and Bobby Townsend of Jesup; two sisters, Gertie Clance of Nashville, Ga., and Ruby Winters of West Green; a half brother, Billie Davis of Valdosta; four grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
FUNERAL: 11 a.m. Tuesday at Gordon-Harrison Funeral Home, burial in Odum Cemetery. -Savannah Now, July 1999 (submitted by contributor Susan Barwick)
US Navy veteran - WW II
ODUM -- W.W. "Babe" Davis, 86, died July 18 at Wayne Memorial Hospital in Jesup.
He was a native of Coffee County, a former resident of Nichols and lived in Odum the past 65 years. He attended Brewton-Parker College, played minor and major league baseball from 1931 to 1938. He was a member of the Major League Baseball Alumni Association and was founder of Babe's Mighty Mights boys and girls baseball and softball leagues of Wayne County.
He was a former employee of the Internal Revenue Service and retired in 1973 from the Alcohol and Tobacco Unit of the Georgia Department of Revenue with 25 years of service. He was a member of the Peace Officers Association of Georgia, the Odum Lions Club and an active member of Odum United Methodist Church.
He was a former mayor of Odum and a Navy veteran of World War II.
SURVIVORS: two daughters and sons-in-law, Ann D. and Ed Murphy of Odum and Ellen D. and Bobby Townsend of Jesup; two sisters, Gertie Clance of Nashville, Ga., and Ruby Winters of West Green; a half brother, Billie Davis of Valdosta; four grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
FUNERAL: 11 a.m. Tuesday at Gordon-Harrison Funeral Home, burial in Odum Cemetery. -Savannah Now, July 1999 (submitted by contributor Susan Barwick)
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