Lugenia Davis Black

Mrs. Lugenia Connell Davis Black, 94, of Elberton, entered into rest on Saturday, April 6, 2019, at Nancy Hart Nursing Center.

Mrs. Black was born in Moultrie, Colquitt County, on March 3, 1925, daughter of the late Samuel Manalcus Connell and Mary Frances Johnson Connell. She worked as a bookkeeper for Apex Granite, in which she and her husband Joe Davis had part ownership. She was a member of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, and the VFW Ladies Auxiliary. She loved working in her yard and found great joy in seeing the fruits of her labor in the blooms of the many flowers she planted and nurtured.

Survivors include two sons and their wives: Charles and Mary Barfield and Jerry and Charlotte Davis; sister, Fay Norman; grandchildren: John Davis and Jennifer Paradise, Debbie and Jeff Chapman, Becky Sherman, and Jeremy and Ann Davis; great-grandchildren: Lana Sherman, Ashley Chapman, Jacy Sherman, and Austin Chapman; stepchildren: Rob Black, Max and Kim Black, Scheryl and Ken Coulter, and Debbie Johari; and a host of other relatives and friends.

She is preceded in death by her parents; husbands: Joe B. Davis and Willie F. “Sarge” Black, Jr.; and siblings: Grady Connell, Millie McKinnon, Ruth Perry, Annie Mae Bragg, Lucille Young, and Grace Connell.

Funeral services celebrating her life will be held on Tuesday, April 9, at 2 o’clock in the Memorial Chapel of Berry Funeral Home with the Rev. Ken Thrift officiating. Interment will follow in Elmhurst Cemetery.

The family is at the residence on Thompson Drive and will receive friends from 1:00-1:45p.m. prior to the service at the funeral home.

Contributions may be made in her memory to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 20 Forest Avenue, Elberton, Georgia 30635 or to T.J. & Friends Foundation, PO Box 6161, Elberton, Georgia 30635.

The family would like to thank the staff of Nancy Hart Nursing Center and Kindred Hospice for the care they gave.

Those wishing may sign the online guestbook at www.berryfh.com.

Berry Funeral Home & Crematory of Elberton is respectfully in charge of arrangements for Mrs. Lugenia Connell Davis Black.