Davis, Glenda Agee

Glenda Agee Davis, a retired Baptist missionary, died Jan. 24. She was 77.

Along with her husband, J. Homer Davis Jr., a retired Baptist pastor, Davis was appointed by the Home Mission Board (now the North American Mission Board) to serve in south Georgia.

The couple served from 1983 to 1993.

Before their missionary appointment, they ministered in churches in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Mississippi.

Born in Atmore, Davis was the daughter of Charles Marvin Agee, who, along with his wife, served as a houseparent for the Alabama Baptist Children’s Home in Troy and the first director of missions for Judson Baptist Association.

Davis attended the University of Montevallo and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and served on staff for two summers at Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center in Talladega during the late 1940s.

At the time of her death, she was a member of Bluff Springs Baptist Church, Ashford, in Columbia Baptist Association and had actively served in its Woman’s Missionary Union.

Davis is survived by her husband of 57 years, four children and 10 grandchildren.  (TAB)