THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, March 19, 1995 TAG: 9503190490
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Charles Emmett Davis, Jr., M.D. died Friday, March 17, 1995 in a Norfolk hospital.
Born 1915 and raised in Smythe County, he was the son of the late Annie Mae and Charles E. Davis, Sr. He attended Roanoke College and the University of Virginia where he was admitted, without the need of a college degree, to medical school. He was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha honorary medical society and became an M.D. in 1940. He served as a Chief Surgical Resident, University of Virginia Hospital. He practiced general surgery in Norfolk from 1948 to 1985.
He was an instructor in Surgery at the University of Virginia Medical School, Director and Chief of Surgery for eight years at Norfolk General Hospital and twelve years at DePaul Hospital and Consulting Surgeon to the Portsmouth Naval Hospital for twenty-five years.
Dr. Davis was the author of thirty articles published in America's leading surgical journals. He was a Professor of Surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School.
He was a past President of the Medical Society of Virginia, the Virginia Surgical Society, the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association, the Norfolk Academy of Medicine and the Medical Staff of DePaul Hospital. He served as associate editor of the ``Virginia Medical,'' Councilor to the Medical Society of Virginia, Chairman of the State Continued Medical Education Commission and member of the Virginia Governor's Emergency Commission. He was a con-sulting surgeon to Medical Center Hospitals and DePaul Hospital. He was a member of the Credentials Committee of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Southern Surgical Association and Southeastern Surgical Congress.
Dr. Davis served on the Committee for Academic Affairs of Roanoke College and the Roanoke College Board of Trustees. He was the first recipient of the Roanoke College Medal for Distinguished Achievement.
He was a Civil War historian and served on the 1961 to 1965 Civil War Commission.
Survivors include a friend, Ms. Barbara McDonald of Norfolk; children: Nancy Browner and William L. Davis both of Virginia Beach, Charles E. Davis, III of Hanalei, Hawaii, Rebecca Anne Solheim of Boulder, Colorado; six grandchildren and two great-granchildren. He was predeceased by his son Peter M. Davis.
His body will be sent to the Lindsay Funeral Home in Rural Retreat, Va. where a graveside funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. on Monday, March 20, 1995 in Mountain View Cemetery by Bishop Richard F. Bansemer. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the Davis Honors Program at Roanoke College, a scholarship program for gifted students in financial need. ILLUSTRATION: Photo
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