GDG- Burke Davis

[Margaret D. Blough]

That's the most graceful way that I've ever seen step-children handled in an obituary.

Regards,

Margaret

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From: "William Brown" <william.h.brown at ncmail.net> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
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> 
> Here is his obit from the Charlotte (NC) Observer... 
> 
> Walter Burke Davis, Jr. 
> 
> GREENSBORO Mr. Davis, age 93, writer and historian, died August 18 in 
> Greensboro, North Carolina. He was the author of forty-seven books, chiefly 
> military history and biography, but also wrote historical and natural 
> history works for young readers. Davis is best known for his books on the 
> Civil War, all of which remain in print after 40-50 years. 
> 
> He served as a Juror for Biography for the Pulitzer prizes in the 1980s. A 
> number of his books were presented to the White House Library by the 
> American Library Association. For many years his title were among the Fifty 
> Notable Books as listed annually by The New York Times. 
> 
> His book To Appomattox: Six April Days won the Mayflower Cup in 1959 for the 
> best non-fiction work by a North Carolinian. He is the only member of the 
> North Carolina Hall of Fame in both literature and journalism. He was named 
> Distinguished Alumnus of Alumnus of Guilford College and received an 
> honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Greensboro College. 
> 
> Born in Durham, North Carolina to W.B. and Harriet Jackson Davis, he moved 
> with his family to Greensboro in 1919 and was educated in the city's public 
> schools and later attended Duke University and Guilford College. He 
> graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1937 with 
> a degree in journalism. 
> 
> His twenty-year career as a newspaper man was spent on the Charlotte News, 
> the Baltimore Evening Sun and the Greensboro Daily News. Davis also served 
> as special writer for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. 
> 
> Davis was a co-founder of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens of Duke University and a 
> board member of the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill. 
> Horticulture and care of ornamental and vegetable gardens were among his 
> chief interests. 
> 
> He is survived by the former Juliet Halliburton Burnett, his wife of 24 
> years, which time he referred to as "my haleyon days". Additional survivors 
> are two children of a previous marriage, Angela Davis-Gardner of Raleigh, 
> North Carolina, and Walter Burke Davis III and his wife, Kelly Cherry of 
> Halifax, Virginia. He was predeceased by three sisters, Marjorie Hulton of 
> Dallas, Texas; Virginia (Mrs. John C.) King of Greensboro, North Carolina 
> and Marian D. Plummer of Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
> 
> Davis leaves four grandchildren, Sarah D. (Mrs. Jason) Long and Kathryn D. 
> (Mrs. Matthew) Brigger, both of Clarksburg, Maryland; Leah D. Williams of 
> Broad Run, Virginia; and Heath Gardner of Raleigh, North Carolina. There are 
> two great-grandchildren. 
> 
> Other survivors who have welcomed him into their lives are his step-son, 
> Timothy B. Burnett and wife, Jane of Greensboro, North Carolina, and their 
> daughters, Allison (Mrs. Brenton L.) Smith and her husband of New York, New 
> York, Catherine Burnett of chapel Hill, North Carolina and Elizabeth Burnett 
> of New York, New York. Also especially close in his affection are the 
> children of his step-daughter, Miranda B. Miles: Brian Miles and his wife, 
> Clara of Niceville, Florida; and Hallie Miles Bouchard and her husband, 
> Marcian of Durham, North Carolina. There are also four great-grandchildren. 
> 
> http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/columnists/jack_betts/15317355.htm 
> Regards, 
> 
> Bill 
> 
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