Extracted from The Tyler Morning Telegraph (Tyler, TX)
Friday, August 25, 2006

Gladys Beene Davis

PITTSBURG -- Services for Gladys Beene Davis, 84, Pittsburg, are scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at Erman Smith Funeral Home chapel, Pittsburg, with the Rev. Doyle Rust officiating. Burial will be in Macedonia Cemetery, Camp County.

Mrs. Davis died Aug. 23, 2006, in a Tyler hospital.

She was born April 8, 1922, in Oklahoma to the late William Harold and Lula Mae Hand Beene. She was a licensed vocational nurse for 45 years, and a member of Bethel Baptist Church where she worked in the nursery, and a bridge club. She also was a volunteer at a Pittsburg nursing home.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Wiley Davis on Dec. 12, 2003.

Survivors include son, Malcolm H. Davis, Seattle, Wash.; daughters, Patricia Jetton, Belleville, and Sharon Whitcomb, Houston; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers are Dick Brownlee, David Starett, Saul Garcia, Paul Henderson, A.B. Nelson, Gerald Jordan and Jimmy Kimbell.

Family will receive friends 5-7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.