FLOYD COUNTY, GA - OBITS  Mrs. Katie Elizabeth Wilkins Davenport

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Rome News Tribune Sept. 19, 1990
Mrs. Davenport

Funeral services for Mrs. Katie Elizabeth Wilkins
Davenport will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at East Rome
Baptist Church.

The Rev. Larry Davis and the Rev. Bobby Underwood
will officiate. Interment will be at Spring Creek
Cemetery.

Mrs. Davenport, 97, of 215 E. 14th St. died Tuesday
morning at a Rome hospital after a long illness. She
was born in Pickens County, April 22, 1893, daughter
of the late Elizabeth Poole Wilkins.

Before retirement, she was employed by Anchor Rome
Mills. She was a member of the Damascus Baptist
Church and a volunteer with the Salvation Army.

Mrs. Davenport was preceded in death by her husband,
the Rev. Thomas Gilbert Davenport, March 15, 1946.

Survirors include: five daughters, Mrs. Cathryn
Sutherland, Rome, Mrs. Mae Lane, Mrs. Alma Howard
and Mrs. Maudine Davenport, all of Silver Creek, and
Mrs. Maggie Hicks, Atlanta, five sons, the Rev.
Rayford Davenport, Tommy Davenport, Clarence
Davenport and Raymond Davenport, all of Rome, and
the Rev. Harrison Davenport of Silver Creek; 32
grandchildren; 56 great-grandchildren; 18 great-
great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews. (Note: died
Sept. 18)