Mrs. Emma Mae Davis

Emma Mae Davis finished her earthly sojourn and went to be with her Savior on July 13, 2023, after a five-year battle with cancer. Emma was born June 13, 1968, in Portsmouth, Virginia where her father was then stationed with the Navy. She was the second of six children born to John Mallory Davis and Kathleen Mills Davis. She spent her early years between Northern Brazil and College Station, Texas. Following her father’s death in Brazil in 1976, the family returned to Louisiana where Emma completed high school. She attended Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia where she met her future husband, Jon, graduating in 1990. Emma married Jon in 1990 and, after an extended five-month honeymoon in Brazil, they settled for four years in Ethel, Louisiana where their sons Silas and Lincoln were born, followed by ten years in Houlton, Maine where they welcomed Esme’, Finn, Mae Mallie and Elle. Maine was followed by four years in Brazil where the births of Zelie and Boaz completed the family. The last fifteen years of Emma’s life were spent in Canon, Georgia where she welcomed three daughters-in-law, two sons-in-law and six grandchildren. She worshipped the Lord faithfully for many years at Heritage Presbyterian Church in Royston, Georgia. Emma loved her calling as a wife and mother, and for the last few years, as a grandmother. She made her home a place of fertile ground for her children to grow in knowledge, diligence, humility, experience and creativity. She filled her home with books and music and wonderful food and found so much satisfaction in seeing her children learn to love to read, to adventure, and most of all to see them embrace a life of faith in Jesus Christ. Emma loved the corporate worship of the saints on the Lord’s Day. She loved to sing the Psalms and the great hymns of the faith. She was the moving force behind hundreds of hours that her family spent singing together and absorbing those precious truths that sustained her and them through her last earthly battles. For those who knew Emma, it is impossible to remember her without thinking of her love of serving people well by cooking for them. She never sought praise, but one could not eat a meal, or even a loaf of bread, from her kitchen without knowing how much of her love was poured into it. Emma was much loved and will be dearly missed by her husband, Jon, of 33 years, and her eight children, Silas Davis (Mara, Eben, Malachi) of Royston, GA; Lincoln Davis (Mary, Peter, Alida, Miriam, Jane) of Pelzer SC, Esme’ Davis of Taylors, SC; Finn (Madison) of Greenville, SC; Mae Mallie Murray (Zac) of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada; Elle Tanis (Kevin) of Andover, NJ; Zelie Davis of Canon, GA; and Boaz Davis of Canon, GA. Also surviving Emma are her mother, Kathleen Davis of Zachary, LA and her five siblings: Kathleen Pourciau of Baton Rouge, LA, John Dan Davis of Zachary, LA, Mallory Davis of Royston, GA, Rose Hogue of Carbon Hill, AL, and Maggie Dawson of Clinton, LA. Funeral services for Mrs. Davis will be held in the Royston First United Methodist Church at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, with Rev. Mike Myers and Rev. Taylor Sexton officiating. Interment will follow in the Young Family Cemetery in Zachary, Louisiana. The family will receive friends at the church immediately following the service on Tuesday afternoon. During other times the family will be at the home. Pruitt Funeral Home in Royston, GA is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Emma Mae Davis

June 13, 1968 - July 13, 2023