Extracted from The Port Arthur News (Port Arthur, TX)
Friday, June 16, 1939

FUNERAL IS SET FOR MRS. DAVIS

Local Woman To Be Buried in Gueydan Cemetery

Mrs. Martha Jane Davis, 68, wife of R. L. Davis, who died Thursday afternoon at the home, 331 Lakeshore Drive, will be buried this afternoon at the cemetery at Gueydan, La., her former home, at the direction of Clayton and Thompson.

The funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. at the Gueydan Baptist church. The body was taken to Gueydan this morning.

Mrs. Davis had been ill only a short time. She came to Port Arthur two years ago. She was a native of Jena, La.

Surviving are the husband; a son, W. H. Davis of Port Arthur; two daughters, Miss Nellie Davis of Port Arthur and Mrs. L. R. Price of Pollock, La.; and two sisters, Mrs. D. D. Dasher of Orange and Mrs. C. A. Butcher of Gueydan.