Marie Davis
Posted: March 1, 2010
AMORY — Marie Taylor Davis, 83, died Feb. 27, 2010, at the Gilmore Memorial Regional Medical Center. Services are Tuesday at 11 a.m. at E.E. Pickle Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. Ronnie Sutton and H.V. Brown officiating. Burial will follow in the Haughton Memorial Park. Visitation is today from 5-8 p.m. and will continue until service time on Tuesday at the funeral home. Mrs. Davis was born Oct. 17, 1926, in Becker, to the late George Nelson and Josie Viola Dye Taylor. A lifelong resident of Monroe County, she graduated from Becker High School as Valedictorian. She retired after 50 years with Amory Garment Co., and she was a member of the Unity Baptist Church in Amory for more than 30 years. In addition to her parents; she was preceded in death by her sisters, Louise Lazenby, Betty Hatcher and Mary Nell Brown; brothers, Dick, Lewis, Ralph and Daniel Taylor. She is survived by her husband, Pete Davis, of Amory; daughter, Delores Price, of Gautier; three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Pallbearers are Gerald Lovvorn, Gary Carroll, Steve Brown, Phillip Brown, Jimmy Dale Taylor and Billy Wayne Taylor.