Obituary of Betty Thompson Davis

Mrs. Betty Thompson Davis, a resident of the Bertha Community of Dale County, passed away Friday, December 27, 2024, in Flowers Hospital. She was 88 years old. Funeral services for Mrs. Davis will be 1:00 P. M. Monday, December 30, 2024, from the Reformation Church (formerly Ozark Presbyterian Church) with Reverend Chris Thomas officiating. Interment will follow in Woodlawn Memory Gardens, Holman Funeral Home of Ozark directing. The family will receive friends Monday in the church from 12:00 Noon until service time. Mrs. Davis was born March 25, 1936 in Brewton, Alabama to the late Wade Benjamin Thompson and Amelia Marguerite Thompson. She graduated from Fairhope High School in 1954 and worked in Mobile as a Legal Secretary. She met and married the late Houston Lamar Davis, Sr. They moved to Ozark where she worked as an Administrative Secretary with the Alabama Aviation and Technical College. Betty and her husband owned and operated the Depot Restaurant at the Greyhound Bus Station in Ozark. Later she worked as a seamstress and was well known for her Christening and Heirloom gowns. Betty was a member of the Ozark Presbyterian Church where she was one of the first women to become a deaconess. She loved to read and was a Master Gardener and Crafter. Betty loved her family, especially her grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 33 years, Houston Lamar Davis, Sr.; and her son-in-law, Michael Marotta. Survivors include two sons, Houston L. Davis, Jr. (Angela), John C. Davis (Prudence) all of the Bertha Community; one daughter, Daphne Davis Marotta of Hopkinsville, Kentucky; two brothers, Harold Thompson (Brenda) of Fairhope, Alabama and Douglas Thompson (Jeannie) of Robertsdale, Alabama; grandchildren, Heather Joseph (Anthony), Nick Davis (Jordan), Garrett Davis (Callie), Lexie Davis and Carlie Davis; great grandchildren, Landon Joseph, Kaylie Joseph, Lawson Joseph, Hamp Davis, Noah Davis, Knox Davis, Ford Davis, Romah Davis, Randi Kate Davis and Griffin Davis. Several nieces and nephews. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made in her memory to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, 26 Broadway 14th Floor, New York, NY https://www.jdrf.org