Obituaries:  Vella Wagner Davis, Sabine Parish       D-120
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 26, 1992
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Vella Wagner Davis

  Funeral services were held at 10 a.m., Wednesday, February 12,
in the chapel of Ralph Robinson and Son Funeral Home, Pine Bluff,
Ark., for Vella Wagner Davis, 76, of Pine Bluff.

  Dr. John H. McClanahan officiated, and interment was in
Graceland Cemetery.

  Mrs. Davis died Feb. 9, at Trinity Medical Center, Pine Bluff.
She was born Sept. 23, 1915, in Bellwood, La., the daughter of
the late James A. and Fannie Virginia Jones Wagner.

  Mrs. Wagner attended Northwestern State University at
Natchitoches, and received a bachelor's degree from the
University of Arkansas, Monticello, and a master's degree from
Henderson State University.

  A teacher in the Pine Bluff system for 41 years, she also taught
at the University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff. She was awarded
special recognition for innovative teaching methods, by several
national teacher's organizations.

  She was a member of the First Baptist Church, Pine Bluff, and of
Delta Kappa Gamma, which she served as president.

  She is survived by a son, James Aubrey Davis of Saratoga,
Calif.; a daughter, Kathryn A. Virginia of Silverdale, Wash.; two
sisters, Doris Rhodes of Monterey, and Lora Butler of Rome, Ga.;
and two grandsons.

  She is preceded in death by her husband, the late Mr. Aubrey
Davis.

  The family requests that memorials take the form of
contributions to the American Cancer Society.