Davis, Bob Delone  
 	
GILMER -- Services for Bob Davis, 69, of East Mountain, will be held 2 p.m. 
Saturday, November 4, 2006, at Croley Funeral Home of Gilmer, with the Reverend 
Charles Johnson and the Reverend Aubrey Pate officiating. Burial will follow 
in Enon Cemetery. Mr. Davis passed away on Thursday, November 2, 2006, in Gilmer. 
Mr. Davis was born January 7, 1937, in Gilmer, Texas. He graduated from Gilmer 
High School, received a B.S. from East Texas State University and his maters from 
Stephen F. Austin University. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany. Mr. Davis 
started teaching public schools at Pine Tree High School. Then, he was employed 
by NASA and worked on the Apollo project. He taught computer science at Kilgore 
College for more than 20 years. After retiring from Kilgore College, he returned 
to Harmony, where he once went to school and became the first technology 
coordinator for Harmony High School. Mr. Davis served on the Union Grove School 
Board for 10 years. Mr. Davis was a member of the East Mountain Baptist Church. 
Bob was an avid hunter, golfer, loved woodworking, and traveling. Bob was a 
loving husband, father, grandfather, and friend. He was especially good at 
spoiling his grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his father, Jimmie Vernon 
Davis; and mother, Lillie Verline Davis Ross. Survivors include his wife, Dora 
Ione Davis of East Mountain, Texas; sons and daughters-in-law, Randall Dean Davis 
and Debbie Davis of East Mountain, Texas, and Stewart Dale Davis and Nancy Davis 
of Cut-N-Shoot, Texas; grandchildren, Benjamin Dean Davis, Lori Michele Davis, 
Zachary Dalton Davis, and Elizabeth Lillian Davis; brother, Jerry Donald Davis of 
Haynesville, Louisiana; and sister, Sandra Jean Bridges of Rockwall, Texas. 
Pallbearers will be Lon Cox, Mike Austell, Steve Tehan, Shaun Wiley, Andy Altman, 
and Dwyane Lee. Honorary pallbearers will be Rusty Dyar, George Heath, Louis 
Fennel, Rex Morris, and Richard Harrison. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Friday 
evening, November 3, 2006.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 11/3/2006.