Obituary of Charlotte Virginia Leavell Davis

Charlotte Virginia Leavell Davis died on August 4, 2014 at the age of 92. She was born September 8, 1921 in Staunton, VA to Charles Edmund and Louvina Marie (Hevener) Leavell; she attended Robert E. Lee High School and Dunsmore Business College there. During the war she worked for Oscar Neville in Verona. She married naval aviator Francis Elisha Davis May 8, 1945 [V-E Day] while he was home on leave. After his active duty ended, they moved to Linville, VA, and opened a general store. In 1947 they moved to Arlington where she worked for Baumbach Plumbing, and in 1957 to the home they built in Falls Church. In 1967 they also built a vacation home in Luray, VA. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1997, and by her older sister Anne Nelson Leavell Barber and her younger brother Edmund Ray Leavell. She is survived by two children: Dianne Leavell Davis Bullach (John) and Edmund Francis Davis (Patricia Broderick). Also five grand children: Donald Warren Bullach (Judith Kirby), Laura Anne Bullach Benabaye (Raymund), Amy Dianne Bullach Castleman (Clifton), Paul Scott Davis, and Lauren Kate Davis. And six great grandchildren: Carson James and Logan Davis Bullach, Moira Avalin and Keelie Raine and Tinsley Amour Bullach Benabaye, and Flynn Lathan Castleman. Charlotte supported her husband’s career in developing new business start-ups, eventually keeping books for the Riverside Development Ltd Partnership, and supervised the construction of their new home in Falls Church. She was an active member of McLean Baptist Church, and volunteered with Crosslink International preparing eyeglasses donated to Lions Club for distribution. Charlotte was a strong, independent, loving woman, who raised two children alone for a year when Edmund was just 2 months old, while Francis was on active duty with the Navy during the Korean conflict. In their later years, she was a devoted caregiver for her parents and later for her husband. Francis and Charlotte liked country estate sales and glass factories, and spent many happy hours traveling the roads with or without a destination in mind, even towing a camper to Alaska. She claimed to suffer from “CTD” (compulsive towel disorder) because she loved to crochet a top onto a hand towel, and gave away hundreds of them. Always ready with a joke, she was skilled at sewing, loved puttering in her yard, planned to go on the roof to clean the gutters until she was 80 but missed it by a year, and desired nothing more than to have her whole family gather around her table. Friends may visit on Saturday, August 9, 2014 from 10– 11 AM at McLean Baptist Church, 1367 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, VA 22101, and where funeral services will be held at 11 AM. Interment Amissville Baptist Church Cemetery, Amissville, VA, at 1:30PM. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to McLean Baptist Church.