Paul M. Davis Jr.

Paul McMillian Davis Jr. (September 1, 1919 - February 12, 2007), also known as Mac Davis but unrelated to the singer Mac Davis, was an orthopedic surgeon, medical writer, and in his later years, a real estate developer in Alexandria, Louisiana.
Background
Davis was born in Ruston, the seat of government of Lincoln Parish in North Louisiana to Dr. Paul M. Davis Sr. and the former Lilleymae Sentell (1895-1981). He earned his undergraduate degree from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. From 1944 to 1945, Davis was a captain in the United States Army Medical Corps in the European theater of World War II. He also served in the Korean War.
In 1951, having relocated to Alexandria, Davis married the former Frances "Fran" Bolton (November 30, 1928 - January 5, 2016), the younger daughter of Alexandria banker James Calderwood Bolton and the former Frances Sample (1902-1986). Frances Bolton was a niece of Robert H. Bolton, another Alexandria banker-businessman, and his first wife, Peggy Bolton. A graduate of Bolton High School and Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, Frances received a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Centenary College in Shreveport. After college, Frances Bolton from 1949 to 1952 worked as a bookkeeper at her family's Rapides Bank, established by her grandfather and located at the time in a limestone building downtown that now houses the Alexandria Museum of Art. "There were not any computers then; so I did all the bookkeeping by hand," Davis recalled in a 2010 interview. While working at the bank, a mutual friend, businessman Harry B. Silver (born January 1922), a later long-term member of the Alexandria City Council, introduced her to Dr. Davis.
Two months after the Davises married, he was called back into military service to Osaka, Japan, still occupied by Allied forces after the war. Mrs. Davis was allowed to join her husband in Japan: "We were in Japan for about one and a half years. We rented a house that was a former officer's house and borrowed furniture. We later moved to military quarters." She maintained friendships from people in Japan for many years thereafter.
Mrs. Davis died at the age of eighty-seven on January 5, 2016. The couple was survived by two sons, Dr. Paul M. Davis, III, an orthopedic surgeon, and his wife, Beth, of Atlanta, Georgia; James Bolton Davis and wife, Linda, of Alexandria, and one daughter, Frances Sentell Davis, who owns and operates a boutique in Raleigh, North Carolina; and four grandchildren, Paul M. Davis, IV, Stephen Bolton Davis, James Stafford Davis, and Catherine Calderwood Davis.<ref nameobit/><ref namecenlaian/><ref name=fdavisobituary/>

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