Annie Pearl Davis, 19 Feb 1920 - 30 Oct 2012

DAVIS, MORRISON, JENKINS, SAVILLE, EIGHMY, BOWER

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 11/13/2012 at 14:03:15

Pearl Davis, 92

Funeral services for Annie Pearl Davis, 92, Williamsburg, were held at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 5, at Watson-Armstrong Funeral Home, Mount Ayr. She died Oct. 30, 2012, at Mercy Hospital, Iowa City.

The Rev. Skip Rushing officiated at the service. Pianist was Ginny Eighmy and congregational hymn was “Hymn Of Promise.”

Burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery, Mount Ayr. Casket bearers were Nathan Eighmy, Brandon Eighmy, Doug Saville, Malcom Eighmy, Lynn Rinehart and Richard Elliott. Honorary pallbearers were Craig and Ellen Elliott, Dave and Marie Still, Mark and Sue Larsen, Dan and Judy Cunning and Collus and Jane Lawhead.

A memorial fund has been established for the United Methodist Church or the donor’s choice.

Annie Pearl Davis was born Feb. 19, 1920, in Hanover County, Virginia, the daughter of Fletcher Linwood and Annie Pearl Jenkins Morrison. She attended elementary and high school at Washington-Henry School near Mechanicsville, Va., graduating in 1936. She loved learning and enjoyed being in plays and researching historical events while in school. After high school, she worked at The Life Insurance Company of Virginia, Richmond, Va.

In May 1942, she met her future husband, Royce Davis, at a military dance in Richmond. They were married May 29, 1943, in Cheyenne, Wyo. Following his discharge from the Army, the couple lived in Mount Ayr, where their daughters Marilyn and Carol were born. After retiring in 1980, they moved to Bella Vista, Ark., where she lived until 2008, when she moved to Highland Ridge Assisted Living, Williamsburg.

She was active in the United Methodist Church, spending many years volunteering at church and community activities. She also enjoyed playing bridge, working crossword puzzles, playing Scrabble, P.E.O. activities and was a lifelong learner. Many people will remember eating her wonderful orange rolls. She made friends wherever she went and was a most gracious lady with a winning smile and a ready sense of humor, a steel magnolia.

Davis is survived by her daughters, Marilyn and James Saville, Mount Ayr, and Carol and Mark Eighmy, Riverside; grandsons, Doug and Suzan Saville, Nathan and Sunny Eighmy and Brandon and Veronica Eighmy and great-grandchildren Bailey and Ryan Saville, Piper, Saylor, Zoey, Fynn, Lincoln, Harrison and Blythe Eighmy; one sister, Lucille and Art Bower; one sister-in-law, Evelyn Morrison, nieces and nephews and many other friends and relatives.

She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents and siblings Edgar, Aubrey, Dorothy, Norma, Julia, James and Barbara.

The Williamsburg Journal Tribune, Iowa County Obituaries , 08 Nov 2012, pg 13