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DATE: TUESDAY, July 27, 1993                   TAG: 9307270263
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MONETA                                 LENGTH: Short

OBIT DAVIS, WILLARD MARK, ("SMILEY")

DAVIS, Willard Mark, ("Smiley"), 64, of Moneta, passed away Sunday, July 25, 1993, at his residence. He was born April 27, 1929 in Blacksburg, a son of the late Ernest Davis and Susie Hodge Davis. He was a retired commercial carpenter and attended the Radford Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Anna Q. Davis; two daughters and sons-in-law, Gay and Wayne Ballard, Evington, Pat and Ricky Bobbitt, Moneta; three sons and daughters-in-law, Mark and Wanda Davis, Roanoke, Larry and Janice Bond, Stuart, Mark Bond and his fiancee, Dawn Metcalf, Moneta; six brothers, Frank Davis, Roanoke, Ernest D. "Big June" Davis, Indiana, Ranny Davis, Richmond, Kenneth Davis, McArthur Davis, Douglas Davis, all of New Castle; three sisters, Elizabeth Thompson, Richmond, Aleene East, Maurestown, Va., Hazel Moore, Christiansburg; several special friends; 13 grandchildren, one great-grandson. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, July 28, 1993 at 11:00 a.m. from the Radford Baptist Church, by the Rev. Jim Carroll and Rev. Vernon DeLong. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends today from 7 to 9 p.m. at Updike Funeral Home, Bedford, and request that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Good Samaritan Hospice, 4235 Colonial Avenue, S.W., Roanoke, VA 24018. Arrangements by Updike Funeral Home, Bedford. 


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