Davis, Cecil C.

Funeral services for "Sandy" Cecil C. Davis, 70, of Longview, will be 2 p.m. Tuesday, 
October 9, 2007, at Macedonia Baptist Church, with the Rev. John Wallingford officiating. 
Entombment will follow at Memory Park Mausoleum under the direction of Rader Funeral 
Home of Longview. He passed away Saturday evening, October 6, at his residence in 
Longview.

Visitation will be 6-8 p.m. today, October 8, at the funeral home.

Mr. Davis was born May 14, 1937, in Detroit, Texas, to Egbert and Birdie Gray Davis and 
had been a longtime resident of Longview. He was a self- employed journeyman carpenter 
and a Baptist.

He was preceded in death by his parents; grandparents, "Granny and Papa Gray" of Munday, 
Texas, who raised him; son, Cecil Davis Jr. of Kilgore; and daughter and son-in-law, Dee 
and Jim Ed Akridge of Beaver, Okla.

Those left to cherish his memory are his devoted wife, Gracie Davis of Longview; children,
Pam Cater and husband, Dan, of Tyler, Tommy Davis and wife, Tara, of Longview, Diana 
Adkins of Longview, Carol Lewis and husband, Bob, of Darrouzett, Texas, Libby Dixon and 
husband, Dale, of Turpin, Okla., Mitch Evans and wife, Melissa, of Kilgore, Keith Evans 
of Longview, Rickey Evans and wife, Lynn, of Longview, Tammy Warren and husband, Carlos, 
of Longview, Jimmy Solomon of Perryton, Texas, and Joan Bowman and husband, Dallas, of 
Georgia; 35 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; three great- great-grandchildren; 
Indian brother, Glen Parsons of Gladewater; baby sister, T.C. of Longview; special cousins, 
Kenneth and Mary Gray of Austin; and numerous other cousins, relatives and friends.

A memorial guestbook may be signed online at www.raderfh.com

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 10/8/2007.