Martha Woods Davis

Real Estate Retiree
Dies April 3, 2019

Martha Woods Davis, 84, Lawrenceville, died Wednesday, April 3, 2019.
She was born on Oct. 10, 1934 to the late Earl Woods and Mellie Martin Woods, Summerville. Martha graduated from Summerville High School in 1953 and moved to Atlanta to attend Marsh Business School. There she met her future husband. She and Michael Davis were married in 1954. Martha retired from real estate in 1988 and worked part-time for Critters Sitters until 2000, where she retired to help take care of her new granddaughter. In addition to her parents, husband, Michael Joseph Davis, Sr.; son, Michael Joseph Davis, Jr.; brothers, Allen Woods and Donald Woods; and sisters, Nell Vaughn and Sherry Bishop died earlier.
Surviving are her son, Ken and wife, Ruth, Statham; son, Phillip Davis, Buford; daughter, Julie Holzmeister and husband, Tom, Lawrenceville; daughter-in-law, Gayle Eakin, Kennessaw; grandchildren, Reid Davis and wife, Chelseay, Indiana, Katherine Lindner and husband, Joel, Virginia, Susan Jones and husband, Shawn, Savannah, Rebecca Davis, Atlanta, Michael Davis III, Johns Creek, Brandon Holzmeister and wife, Misty, Lawrenceville, Shannon Brandenburg and husband, Josh, Dacula; Madison, Dylan, Austin and Nathan Holzmeister, Lawrenceville, Austen Helfrich and wife, Anita, New York; sister, June Mitchell, Menlo; and Hazel Galloway, Fayetteville.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Interment was at Eternal Hills Memory Gardens, Snellville Chapel.