Avis de décès de Frances-Battey Davis - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

'Bunny' CONNEMARA, IRELAND - Frances (Bunny) Battey Davis died on November 24, 2010 in Ireland. Born on August 21, 1919 in Augusta, Georgia, she was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Battey, Sr., and sister of the late Dr. Alfred Battey, Jr. and the late Dr. Louis L. Battey, Sr. Mrs. Davis attended Mount St. Joseph in Augusta, Marymount College in New York, and the Sorbonne at the University of Paris in 1938-39. She moved to Atlanta in 1940 when she married the late Robert Schwab, Jr. She was a member of the Atlanta Junior League, the Cherokee Garden Club and the Atlanta Town Committee of National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. She was also Chairman of the Atlanta Speech School and of the Board of the Diocese of Atlanta Catholic Social Services. As President of the Cherokee Garden Club, she founded "Christmas Trees Around the World" in 1956, which became "The Festival of Trees." Proceeds derived from "Christmas Trees" provided funding for gifts to the Atlanta Arts Association (Forward Arts Foundation), the High Museum, Egleston Hospital (now Children's Healthcare), and the Thornton House. For this work, she received the Valley Forge Medal of Honor and the Amy Collier Award from the Garden Club of America. She moved to London in 1965, where she married Robert G. Davis, now deceased, and spent twenty years abroad. During her residency in England, she was Chairman of British-American Committee in London, and participated in Anglican-Roman Catholic-Jewish Relations. In Ireland, she lived in Connemara, County Galway, and was dedicated to ecumenical committees at Kylemore Abbey. She helped those in need throughout her life. While at the Sorbonne, she was instrumental in facilitating the escape from Germany to Paris of a Jewish family whose property had already been confiscated by the Nazis. And later in Pebble Beach, California, she and her husband organized emergency help for dozens of Vietnamese refugees arriving daily in the Monterey area at the end of the Vietnam War. She is survived by a son Robert W. Schwab, III. At the request of the deceased, her body has been given to the Galway University College of Medicine for research in preventive medicine; there will be no funeral or reception of friends; and for those who wish to remember her, to do a good deed in her memory. Sign the guestbook at AugustaChronicle.com