Barbara Jean Davis

Published 12:00 am Saturday, March 17, 2012

May 5, 1966 – March 14, 2012

CHURCH HILL — Services for Barbara Jean Davis, 45, of Natchez, who died Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at Natchez Regional Medical Center, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Gospel Temple Baptist Church in Church Hill with the Rev. Lonnie Culbert officiating.

Burial will follow at the church cemetery under the direction of Bateaste Memorial Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mrs. Davis was born May 5, 1966, the daughter of Goldman Long and Gloria Jean Davis. She was employed by Devereaux Shields Bed and Breakfast.

She was Baptist.

Barbara was the love of her family.

She was preceded in death by her father; her grandparents, Willie and Emma Davis; three aunts, Gretchen and Avis Davis and Irma Overton; one uncle, Sammy Davis; one great-uncle, Sam White; father-figure, James Young; and one brother-in-law, Joseph Williams.

Survivors include her mother; one daughter, Cynthia and her fiancé, Dwayne Blackwell; one son, Edward Davis; one granddaughter, A’Nya “Nookie” and her fiancé, Anthony Lewis, all of Natchez; nine brothers and sisters, James Davis and wife, Marla, Antonia Russell and husband, Benjamin, all of Jackson, Curtis Davis and wife, Jemeia, Freddie Davis and wife, Delores, all of Hattiesburg, Nicole Williams, Kelly Davis and husband, Archie, all of Natchez, Gretchen Davis of Austin, Texas and Jennie Lynn Armstead of Hammond, La.; aunts and uncles, Charles and wife, Ameka, Elijah, Allen, Willie, Frank, Gwendolyn, Linda, Odessa, Vinnie, Celia and Beulah; 22 nieces and nephews; nieces and nephews she raised and cared for as her own, Anissa and Lekeshia and Brian and Curtis “Duke” Davis; special aunt, Marjorie Davis of Natchez, and a number of cousins and friends.

Pallbearers will be Edward Owens, D’Eddie Collins, Troy Banks Jr., Oliver Davis, Montrell Gooden, Dondric Graze and Jessie Caston Jr.

Honorary pallbearers will be brothers and uncles.