Services to be Saturday for David Davis III, 67
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David Davis III
Services have been scheduled for David Davis III, a lifelong Sitka resident who died April 25. He was 67.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 30, at St. Michael’s Cathedral. Lunch will follow at the American Legion, beginning at 1 p.m.
David was born April 10, 1955, in Sitka, the son of Josephine and David Davis Jr.
He attended Sitka schools and afterward was a firefighter with the Sitka Volunteer Fire Department, for eight years, and a taxi driver for some 20 years.
In recent years he became interested in carving, and created paddles and other pieces of Tlingit art that he shared with family and friends.
David was preceded in death by two brothers, Ron and Lester Davis, and a sister Josephine.
He is survived by three brothers, Robert, Patrick and Willie Davis, all of Sitka, and nephews and nieces.
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