Earnest Neal Davis

THE ABILENE REPORTER NEWS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1954

WORLD WAR II VET BURIED AT C-CITY

COLORADO CITY, FEBRUARY 4, ~~ Funeral services were held Thursday at 10:30 a.m.at Kiker and Son Funeral Chapel for Earnest Neal Davis, 37, of Dallas, who died Tuesday morning in the Dallas Veterans Hospital.
The Rev. Jack Selcraig, pastor of the First Baptist Church officiated. Burial with military rites was in the Colorado City Cemetery.
Pallbearers were members of the American Legion, VFW, and National Guard.
Mr. Davis had been a patient at the hospital for four months.
Born March 3, 1916 in Bartlett, he married the former Beatrice Opal Barksdale in Colorado City on October 10, 1936. He lived here from 1925 until 1950.
During World War II, Mr. Davis served in the Army with the 37th. Division in the Quartermaster Corps from November, 1941, until January, 1946.
He had recently been employed as an aircraft mechanic at the Chance Vaught aircraft plant in Grand Prairie.
Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Beatrice Elizabeth and Billie Sue; and one son, Earnest Melvin, all of Dallas; two brothers, C. R. and W. A. Davis of Dallas; and three sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Patterson of Dallas, Mrs. Lora West of Colorado City, and Mrs. Carl (Katherine Margaret) Barnfield of Big Spring.