Martha Butner Davis

August 9, 1912 ~ October 12, 2006
Resided in:
Asheville, NC
Martha Manning Davis of Asheville, North Carolina, died Thursday, October 12, 2006. She was the wife of Reverend Willard Graham Davis.
She was born in Smyrna, Georgia on August 9, 1912 and was the daughter of J. Frank Manning and Adelaide Anderson Manning. In addition to her husband she was also preceded in death by her brother William Anderson Manning and three sisters, Pauline M. Kent, Eugenia M. Allgood and Mary M. Mitchell.
Martha was an artist, writer and homemaker. Her only desire was to serve her Lord and make a happy home for her family. She graduated from Tifton High School, Tifton, Georgia and LaSalle University School of Design, in Chicago, Illinois. She taught Sunday school and held many offices for the United Methodist Women. She traveled the world with her husband and children making a home for them wherever her husband was stationed in the United States Air Force. She has remarked that “one place they would have a hut and at another a hacienda” but each one was a challenge to make an attractive and comfortable home for her family.
She is survived by her son Manning Davis and his wife Donna of Alpine, Texas; a daughter Madeline D. Parker of Asheville, NC; three granddaughters, Lindley Myers and her husband Shelton of Sylva, NC; Lillian Bae Cimino-Hurt and her husband Silas of Sewanee, TN and Sherry Lee Simon and her husband Alan of Duluth, Georgia; four greatgrandchildren; a nephew, Charles Kent and his wife Louise of Tifton, Georgia and a niece, Katherine Kent of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
Memorial services will be held at Givens Estates in Asheville, NC and a graveside memorial service at Oxford Historical Cemetery in Oxford, GA. Both will be at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to Givens Estates Resident Council Staff Appreciation Fund c/o Wachovia Bank NA, PO Box 310, North Wilkesboro, N.C. 28659.
Madeline and Manning,
Sorry to read about your Mom. I know how you feel when that final day comes. It is never easy. I have you and your families in my thoughts and prayers. Love, Polly