Margaret Irene Jackson Davis

Mrs. Margaret Irene Jackson Davis, 72, passed away Tuesday, April 19, 2011, at Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast in Concord after two years of declining health. A funeral service is scheduled for 2:00 pm Friday, April 22, 2011, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Raymond Ross will officiate. Interment will follow at Carolina Memorial Park in Kannapolis. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8:00 pm Thursday at Lady's Funeral Home. At other times, the family will be at the home. Mrs. Davis was born June 30, 1938 in Chesterfield, SC. She was the second to the oldest child of sixteen children of the late Lonnie B. Jackson and Lucy Irene Horne Jackson. She worked as a spinner for sixteen years at Cannon Mills and for twelve years at Old Dominion in Landis before retiring. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Cletus M. Davis; grandson, Eric Howell, Jr.; son in law, Charles D. Weddington, Sr.; four sisters, Sylvia Burris, Ruby Horne, Debra Sutherland and Ellen Jackson and three brothers, Gerald, Richard and Randy and two unnamed infants. Mrs. Davis is survived by two daughters, Jan I. Weddington and Linda D. Burris both of Kannapolis; granddaughter, Crystal A. Eller and boyfriend, Gabe Basinger; grandson, Jeremy Gainey and wife, Heather; three great granddaughters, Erika Eller, Samara and Karlie Gainey; one sister, Ellie Burch, and husband, Jackie of Mt. Croghan, SC; one adopted daughter, Bernice "Bebe" Thomas of Kannapolis; five brothers, Rev. Harry Jackson and wife, Amy, James Jackson and wife, Judy and Michael Jackson all of Kannapolis, Harold Jackson and wife, Peggy of China Grove and Ray Jackson and wife, Diane of Mt. Croghan, SC; lots of nieces and nephews and best friends, Gary and Pam Hamrick and Helen Ross.