Pete Davis Died Saturday in Ballinger -- Pete Davis, 91 of Winters, died @ 12:35 a.m. Saturday in Ballinger Memorial Hospital after a lenghty illness. Funeral services were held at 3:00 p.m. Sunday in Winters Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with the Rev. J. S. Tierce, Baptist minister, officiating. Burial was in Lakeview Cememtery under the direction of Winters Funeral Home. Mr. Davis was born July 29, 1888 in Milam County. He came to Runnels County in 1900, settling on a farm east of Winters where he farmed until 1951 when he moved to Winters. He married Annie Marks on December 5, 1913, east of Winters. She died in 1967. For the past seven years, he had lived at a Ballinger nursing home. He was a member of the First Baptist Church. Survivors include a son, W. J. of Pearsall; a daughter, Mrs. Herman Bullock of Robstown; a sister Mrs. John Q. McAdams of Winters; five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Pallbearers were E. L. Willborn. W. R. Gray, Ralph Lloyd, Dennis Poe, Lloyd Wilkerson, Roger Robinson, Eddie Voelker and John S. Brown.

From The Winters Enterprise -- Date of Death 10/6/1979
Mr. Davis was the son of William Sampson Davis and Francis Jane "Fannie" Riddle