Betty Joyce Davis

Betty Joyce Hough Davis left to be with the Lord on February 2, 2015. She was born October 11, 1936, in Shreveport, Louisiana, and lived in Bossier City, Louisiana, for fifty years and in Vicksburg, MS, the remainder of her life.

Graveside rites are scheduled for 2:00 p.m., February 6, 2015 at Hillcrest Memorial Park in Bossier City, LA.

Joyce leaves behind her daughter Deborah Cherie Kilgo (Larry), three granddaughters, Melissa Joy Reger, Jena Cherie Soltys (Doug), Kaylee Grace Kilgo, and three great granddaughters, Ann Cherie Reger, Maggie Reger, Laura Reger, and two sisters, Joan Hough Harrington Tomlinson and Lela Jean Hough Furgason.

Joyce was a proud member of the John Birch Society, the Louisiana and Mississippi Retired Teachers Associations. Her greatest joy was teaching her students to respect and love the United States of America, the greatest Christian nation and Constitutional Republic in the world. She is a descendant of the American Colonist. Her ancestors fought in the American Revolution, and the War Between the States. Her DNA has been Southern since the 1600s.

Joyce was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, Charles Travis Davis of Vicksburg, MS, her son, Charles Travis Davis, Jr. (Chaz) and her parents, Clinton Emmett and Thelma Hough of Claiborne Parish, fraternal grandparents, Walter Eugene Hough and Lela Ava Adams of Claiborne Parish, LA, and her maternal grandparents, Julia Sedberry Sparkman and Thomas Harvey Sparkman of Arkansas.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The John Birch Society, P.O. Box 8040, Appleton, WI 54912, or the Vicksburg YMCA, 267 YMCA Place, Vicksburg, MS 39180.