MAGGIE DAVIS

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Maggie Elam Davis, 93, of Charleston died Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2001, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center at Sikeston, Mo.

She was born March 28, 1907, in Greenwood, Miss., to the late Ida and Aron Elam and had lived in Missouri since 1922.

She married Solomon Davis on Jan. 3, 1926. He died Oct. 24, 1976.

She was a member of the Ollie Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Wyatt, Mo., where she served as past president of the Mother Board, was a past church treasurer and was a member of the church for more than 50 years.

She is survived by two daughters, Myrtle Lockhart of Detroit, Mich., and Mary Davis, with whom she lived in Charleston; six sons, Lee Morris Davis of Wyatt, Eugene Davis of St. Peters, Mo., Lee Henry Davis of Charleston, Willie E. Davis and Solomon Davis Jr. of Detroit, and Otha L. Davis of St. Louis; a brother, Stone Wall Mattheus of New Orleans, La.; 34 grandchildren; 82 great-grandchildren; and 26 great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, nine sons, two grandsons and a great-grandson.

Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Sparks Funeral Home at Charleston.

Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Ollie Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Wyatt, with the Rev. Melvin Williams officiating. Interment will follow in the Oak Grove Cemetery at Charleston.