FORT WORTH - Isaac "Ike" Newton Davis, Assemblies of God evangelist, died Saturday at a Fort Worth hospital. He was 63.
Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Bethesda Community Church. Entombment will be in Greenwood Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight at Mount Olivet Funeral Home.
Mr. Davis was born in Fort Worth.
He was a longtime singer-songwriter and evangelist. He wrote some songs with Ray Heady and Herman Michner. Some of his tunes included At an Altar of Prayer, In the Shelter of His Arms, A Special Grace, and Way to Cross Over. His music was recorded by Red Foley, the Happy Goodmans, Jimmie Davis, the Oak Ridge Boys, Jimmy Swaggart and Jack Holcomb and others.
The family suggests that memorials be made to the Ike Davis Fund at Central Bank & Trust in Fort Worth.
Survivors: Wife, Reba Grace Davis of Fort Worth; son, Steve Davis of Saginaw; two daughters, Cindy Edwards and Lisha Allen both of Fort Worth; and four grandchildren.
Published in The Star-Telegram, August 24, 1992, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Bethesda Community Church. Entombment will be in Greenwood Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight at Mount Olivet Funeral Home.
Mr. Davis was born in Fort Worth.
He was a longtime singer-songwriter and evangelist. He wrote some songs with Ray Heady and Herman Michner. Some of his tunes included At an Altar of Prayer, In the Shelter of His Arms, A Special Grace, and Way to Cross Over. His music was recorded by Red Foley, the Happy Goodmans, Jimmie Davis, the Oak Ridge Boys, Jimmy Swaggart and Jack Holcomb and others.
The family suggests that memorials be made to the Ike Davis Fund at Central Bank & Trust in Fort Worth.
Survivors: Wife, Reba Grace Davis of Fort Worth; son, Steve Davis of Saginaw; two daughters, Cindy Edwards and Lisha Allen both of Fort Worth; and four grandchildren.
Published in The Star-Telegram, August 24, 1992, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Icon:
Cross
Inscriptions:
US Army
With a song in his heart
FORT WORTH - Isaac "Ike" Newton Davis, Assemblies of God evangelist, died Saturday at a Fort Worth hospital. He was 63.
Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Bethesda Community Church. Entombment will be in Greenwood Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight at Mount Olivet Funeral Home.
Mr. Davis was born in Fort Worth.
He was a longtime singer-songwriter and evangelist. He wrote some songs with Ray Heady and Herman Michner. Some of his tunes included At an Altar of Prayer, In the Shelter of His Arms, A Special Grace, and Way to Cross Over. His music was recorded by Red Foley, the Happy Goodmans, Jimmie Davis, the Oak Ridge Boys, Jimmy Swaggart and Jack Holcomb and others.
The family suggests that memorials be made to the Ike Davis Fund at Central Bank & Trust in Fort Worth.
Survivors: Wife, Reba Grace Davis of Fort Worth; son, Steve Davis of Saginaw; two daughters, Cindy Edwards and Lisha Allen both of Fort Worth; and four grandchildren.
Published in The Star-Telegram, August 24, 1992, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Icon:
Cross
Inscriptions:
US Army
With a song in his heart
Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Bethesda Community Church. Entombment will be in Greenwood Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight at Mount Olivet Funeral Home.
Mr. Davis was born in Fort Worth.
He was a longtime singer-songwriter and evangelist. He wrote some songs with Ray Heady and Herman Michner. Some of his tunes included At an Altar of Prayer, In the Shelter of His Arms, A Special Grace, and Way to Cross Over. His music was recorded by Red Foley, the Happy Goodmans, Jimmie Davis, the Oak Ridge Boys, Jimmy Swaggart and Jack Holcomb and others.
The family suggests that memorials be made to the Ike Davis Fund at Central Bank & Trust in Fort Worth.
Survivors: Wife, Reba Grace Davis of Fort Worth; son, Steve Davis of Saginaw; two daughters, Cindy Edwards and Lisha Allen both of Fort Worth; and four grandchildren.
Published in The Star-Telegram, August 24, 1992, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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