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Funeral services were held on December 29, 2021 at Memory Chapel of Anderson Ragsdale Mortuary with the burial following at Greenwood Bible Mausoleum. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary. Gean Ray Davis was born on September 27, 1933 in Austin, Texas, to Frank Davis and Martha Bedford Davis. He had a twin sister, Geanie […]

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