of Albion, AR

September 23, 1930 - November 21, 2025

Early on Friday morning Nov 21, 2025 before 2 am, many prayers were answered. Jackie at the age of 95 years and nearly 2 months old, moved her residence from the Albion community to her new and forever home in heaven. That had been her great desire for some time, but especially over the past year or so. Thanks to everyone who prayed for her, for our family and for the peaceful conclusion of her days on earth, according to God's will and His always perfect timing.

Jackie's full name above is the name she had made for her grave marker. She wanted family and friends to find her as she was known through her long life of 95 years. Born at home on Sept 23, 1930 she was a lifelong resident of White County, AR, living north of Searcy on Hwy 16 in the community of Albion, formerly known as Oak Grove. She resided 85 years of her life on the property along Hwy16 that has been in her family well over 100 years.

She was the second child of Walter E ''Buck'' Davis and Clara Nella Harshaw. Her older brother was Wallace Davis, White Co. judge during the '60s and her younger sister, Charlesrea Southerland Steward, was Supervisor over the Searcy office of the AR Revenue Dept.

Her parents owned and operated a service station, mechanic's garage and a country grocery store next to the family home. It served the community and helped make their family a living during the hard times following the Depression years of the late '20s and early '30s. Jackie would, in the '70-80s, operate J&H Specialty shop out of that same property, selling interior home and exterior lawn decorations among several other items that she enjoyed buying to sell. The remnants of the old store and her mom and dad's home place still stand today.

Initially schooled in her own community, she later attended school and graduated at the age of 16, from Pangburn Schools. The next year she attended classes at Harding College. Her early teen years were during WWII, in which her brother, Wallace, served his country.

In 1948, at the age of 17, she married her schoolmate from Pangburn, Hartsell B Capps, who also had returned from his military service. Together they started a life beginning in Searcy, but eventually brought them back to Albion, to build a home, to raise their two daughters, Sherry Snow (Brooks) and Sheila Watson (David). She worked away from the home after the girls started elementary school, but was always involved in whatever school, church and community activities they joined or participated in - Bible schools, pageants, sleepovers, ball games, clubs, parties and the list goes on. Their home and the old store became a place of adventure and enjoyment for the five grandchildren who came along. Ardis Snow Gillespie (Cameron), Miles Watson, Brooks Aaron Snow (Brenda), Jason Watson (Melanie) and Cameron Snow (Loresa). She was so very proud of each of them and their accomplishments as they grew from children through the teen years and then on into adulthood. And each of them have lots of fond memories from then and since of their ''Nana'', the name she gave herself for them.

Jackie's spiritual heritage began, as it should, in the home and in the church. Her family and the church taught her the truth of the Scriptures and the importance of faith in her life. Her father, Buck, would ring the church steeple bell on Sundays to remind the community it was time to make their way to the Oak Grove Methodist Church. Her mother's sister, Aunt Ozella and husband, Uncle Herman from TX, would come visit Jackie's Mom and the rest of family from time to time. He was a Methodist minister and would often hold revival meetings during his family visits to AR. She built upon that foundation as an adult, then as a mother taught her two daughters in those ways. In fact, her daughter Sheila made her profession of faith during one of Uncle Herman's revivals. When she was no longer able to attend church services in person, she would faithfully watch her favorite preachers and services on TV. One of Jackie's favorite verses, as was her mother's, was the 23rd Psalm.

Jackie loved flowers, probably due to her mother's love of the same in order to have color around her home. And she also enjoyed birds of many types. There is no telling how many hundreds of pounds of bird seed that she and more recently, Sherry and Brooks have poured out in the yard so she could see the birds out her kitchen and large front windows.

And then there were the cats, many names and breeds through the years. Don't believe the birds were there to entertain or aggravate the cats or vice versa. Lots of birds, but only a few cats at a time. Her last cat companion, Missy, a dark gray one and Jackie had a special relationship. She was added company to Jackie as her mobility decreased. Sheila said she would sing to get the cat to come out of hiding if she wanted to put her out of the house. Sheila found it easier to just rattle a food container with something to eat which Missy enjoyed. To this day, Missy is still holding down the fort, so to speak, at the home on Hwy 16. If you see Sherry and Brooks' white truck in her driveway, she is likely feeding or checking on Missy. The apple does not fall far from the tree. Sherry and daughter, Ardis are both the caretakers of more cats than can be numbered.

Beyond cats, Ardis had a very special relationship with her grandmother. For many years she would send her letters, cards, notes and pictures to stay connected. She called her often to visit and catch up. Jackie enjoyed that immensely.

In 1993 Jackie married again, to Kenneth Levey. She remained in the home adjacent to her mother and dad's place. They enjoyed their life together as they aged through their senior years. It was during this time that Chris Brown and family became acquainted first with Mr. Ken, then Ms. Jackie. They formed a very close bond of friendship. And being nearby, just up Hwy 16 toward Pangburn, they became closer than a lot of her other family. Jackie told Sheila many times, if she had a son, she would want him to be just like Chris. After 28 years together, Kenneth passed four years ago in Oct, 2021. Jackie wanted to remain in her home of all those years. So with the help of her two daughters and the Brown family, Chris and his son Will, she lived over four years mostly independently in her home. Others took care of what she could not.

In that home, on that same property adjacent to her parents home and place of birth, is where Jackie resided for about 68 years until her Unity hospital stay, which began on Oct 19 and concluded at The Crossings on Nov 21, 2025.

This is a brief history of her life story. But it is not her legacy. That is more captured in the life stories of those that remain. Her two daughters, her five grandchildren, her ten great grandchildren, Miles' kids, Gracen, Holten Davis (her namesake) and Worth; Brooks' kids, Ashton, Aaron and Anna; Jason's kids, Nathan and Connor and Cameron's kids, Sadie and Sophie. Jackie was also a beloved aunt to her nieces and nephews, Belinda Davis Hill and Gary Wallace Davis (d); Ernest Jr (d), Zelda (d), Michael and Michelle Southerland; Kimberly Schoenberger Lancaster and Michael Schoenberger (d), plus many cousins. These were individuals plus the many community and other extended family relatives whose lives she touched and influenced.

After her memorial service, held at Roller-Daniel Funeral Home of Searcy, AR on Nov. 25, 2025, she was laid to rest beside Kenneth, near her parents and other family members at White Co. Memorial Gardens in Searcy.

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