A sweet precious soul has departed this earth and has begun her heavenly journey with all the saints and family members who have gone on before. Sherry Brown Davis, with her family at her bedside, answered the call from the death angel at 1:06 p.m. Tuesday afternoon April 29, 2025 at the Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital in Lebanon where she was admitted Sunday afternoon April 27th.
Mrs. Davis was 68 years of age and was suffering from mesothelioma with which she was diagnosed in October of 2021. Her pastor, Pastor Tracy Symones assisted by her former pastor, Pastor David Thackston, will officiate at the 1 p.m. Friday afternoon May 2nd funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Circle Park at the Smith County Memorial Gardens near her parents.
The Davis family will receive friends at Sanderson in Carthage on Thursday from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m. and again on Thursday from 10 a.m. until the 1 p.m. funeral services. She was born Sherry Lynn Brown in Dayton in Montgomery County, Ohio on December 19, 1958 and was one of three daughters and two sons of the late John Robert Brown who died October 27, 2013 at the age of 86 and Elizabeth Virginia Silcox Brown who died October 4, 2020 at the age of 89.
Preceding her in death was a sister, Lumberton, North Carolina resident, Marsha Brown Locklear who died at the age of 68 on May 25, 2020 and a brother, Rawls Creek Community resident, Stanley Wyatt Brown who died at the age of 64 on September 13, 2020. Mrs. Davis was a 1975 graduate of Smith County High School. There she majored in home economics, a subject she took all four years and served as F. H. A. treasurer her junior and was the Junior class president, was a member of the Pep Club her junior and senior year and was in V. I. C. A. her senior year.
She was united in marriage to James Richard (Jim) Davis at the Tanglewood Community home of her parents and the ceremony was officiated by Bro. William Comstock. Mrs. Davis was director of the Human Services office in the Smith County Mayor’s office under former Mayor Michael Nesbitt and continued under Mayor Jeff Mason.
Her total years of employment in government before retiring in June of 2023 with fourteen years of loyal and dedicated service, was filled with many changes in government regulations. Mrs. Davis was a member of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus name in Lebanon and professed her faith and hope in Christ as a teenager.
Surviving in addition to her husband Jim, of over forty-nine years, are their two sons, James Davis of the Popes Hill Community, Jeremy Davis and wife Ashley of Red Boiling Springs, sister, Debbie Brown Gividen, brother, Roy Brown both of the Tanglewood Community, sister-in-law, Wanda Rigsby Brown of the Rawls Creek Community, brother-in-law, Wyvin Locklear of Lumberton, North Carolina; two grandchildren Shelby Lynn Tayse and husband Nicholas of the Lock Seven Community, Logan Davis of the Popes Hill Community, reared as a daughter, Christy Davis Fields of Florence, Alabama.
Pallbearers: Zaine Moore, Nicholas Tayse, former Smith County Mayor Michael Nesbitt, Larry Gibbs, Kolby Watts, & Eli Gividen
Honorary Pallbearers: Smith County Mayor Jeff Mason and his office staff. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Sherry, please visit our floral store. To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
This obituary was published by Sanderson Funeral Homes, Inc. – Carthage.
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