JEFF BLACKSHEAR DAVIS

We regret to announce the passing of Mr. Jeff Blackshear Davis, age 90, of Newnan, GA who passed away Saturday, Feb. 26, 2005 at the Fairburn Healthcare Center. Funeral services for Mr. Davis will be held on Tuesday morning, March 1, 2005 at 11:00 AM at the Chapel of Evans-Skipper Funeral Home in Donalsonville, GA. with the Rev. Luther Hastey officiating. Interment will follow in Friendship Cemetery with Masonic Rites. The family will receive friends from 10:00AM-11:00AM at the funeral home. Mr. Davis was born in Miller County, GA on October 6, 1914 to the late Jeff and Molly Widner Davis. He worked as a mechanic with the John Deere Company here for many years. Mr. Davis was married to the former Blanche Pauline Drake who preceded him in death in 1998. He was a member of the Lake Seminole Masonic Lodge and the Moose Lodge of Panacea, FL. Mr. Davis was of the Baptist faith. Mr. Davis leaves to cherish his memory one daughter, Alice Wallace and her husband Aaron of East Point, GA; four sons; Jackie Davis and his wife Delores of Newnan, GA, Eugene Davis and his wife Evugenia of Melbourne, FL, Max Davis of Bainbridge, GA, and Kenneth Ray Davis and his wife Kaye of Crawfordville, FL; two brothers, Grover Davis of Tallahassee,FL and L.T. Davis of Colquitt, GA; and one sister, Dorothy Barber of Dundee, FL. Two grandchildren and two great grandchildren also survive. Members of the Lake Seminole Masonic Lodge will serve as pallbearers. Evans-Skipper Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements.