DAVIS TERRY W

LTC Terry W. Davis was a VHPA member who died after his tour in Vietnam on 06/20/2015 at the age of 68.9
Blythewood, SC
Flight Class 68-6
Date of Birth 07/20/1946
Served in the U.S. Army
Served in Vietnam with 282 AHC in 68-69, 191 AHC in 71, C/16 CAV in 71-72
Call signs in Vietnam ALLEYCAT 5, BOUNTY HUNTER 36, ALLEY CAT 6
This information was provided by Jim Burns

More detail on this person: Terry W. Davis died June 20, 2015, of complications from Agent Orange. He was 68.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 25, 2015, at Kornegay and Moseley Funeral Home, 4645 Hard Scrabble Road, Columbia, SC 29229. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, June 26, 2015, at Trinity United Methodist Church in Blythewood, at the crossroads of Blythewood Road and Boney Road, with the Rev. C. Nels Ledwell officiating. Burial will follow immediately at Fort Jackson National Cemetery with full military honors.

Surviving are his loving wife, Raisa Davis, of Blythewood; daughters Audrey Graziano, of Alexandria, Virginia, Kimberly Kuhn, of Columbia and Carrie Shillingburg, of Flower Mound, Texas; son, Robert Davis, of Columbia; and sisters Grace Callaway, of Brownsboro, Texas and Susie Davis, of Dallas.

Terry was in the U.S. Army for 21 years and retired as a lieutenant colonel. He served two tours in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot. His Army medals include the Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross for Heroism, two Bronze Star Medals, Air Medal (second through 28th Oak Leaf Clusters) and Air Medal (30th through 55th awards).

He was vice president for outside physicians with Lexington Medical Center. He loved to travel, play golf and garden, and he enjoyed cruising.

In lieu of flowers the family asks that donations be given in memory of Terry W. Davis to Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation, P.O. Box 442, Needham, MA 02494.

Please leave online condolences for the family at Kornegay and Moseley Funeral Home.

Burial information: Fort Jackson National Cemetery, Columbia, SC

This information was last updated 05/18/2016

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