Red River County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Davis, Suzannah Nelson October 31, 1996
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The Coushatta Citizen   Nov. 5, 1996
   Funeral services for MRS. SUZANNAH NELSON DAVIS, 46, were held at 11 a.m. 
Saturday, Nov. 2, at St. George Catholic Church, Ashland Road, Coushatta with 
the REV. LARRY NIEHOFF officiating, with interment in Liberty Cemetery.
   MRS. DAVIS died at 12:45 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, 1996, in Huckaby Hospital 
after a year-long battle with cancer.
   MRS. DAVIS was a popular Coushatta native and a successful romance 
novelist. She had grown up in the newspaper famioly of The Coushatta Citizen, 
worked for the paper, was honor graduate and drum major at Coushatta High 
School, and organist at St. George Catholic Church. 
   She graduated for Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge, Cum Laude in 
English and worked variously as a librarian and social worker before launching 
her career in the early 80's as a novelist. She published her first novel, "No 
Bed of Roses" in 1984, and at the time of her death she had written more than 
twenty-22 novels. She had also completed during the last year, along with her 
friend and fellow novelist Penny Richards of Haughton, an additional quartet 
of novels for Dell Publishing that will be published next year. Her novels 
have been translated into more than a dozen different languages included 
Chinese, Russian and Japanese. She was a charter member of Northwest Louisiana 
Romance Writers and member of Romance Writers of America.
   MRS. DAVIS is survived by three children: BRIAN, 20, of LSU, JILL, 17, and 
BRAD, 13, both of Coushatta; her parents, GORDON and EVELYN NELSON of 
Coushatta; a sister, DR. JULIE NELSON of Baton Rouge; two brothers, TIM and 
KEVIN NELSON, both of Greenville, S. C. and former husband, J. Q. DAVIS of 
Coushatta.
   Pallbearers were JJIM BETHARD, BOB HOLEMAN, WALTER DORROH, CORT DAVIS, 
RICHARD LOFTIN and PATRICK NELSON.
   Services were under direction of Rockett-Nettles Funeral Home in Coushatta.

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