JIM DAVENPORT

JACKSON -- Funeral service for James "Jim" Davenport of Jackson will be held at 2 p.m. today at McCombs Funeral Chapel in Jackson. The Rev. O. David Griffin will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery.

Visitation was Saturday at the funeral home.

Davenport, 75, died Thursday, June 5, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

He was born Dec. 6, 1921, at Leemon, son of James M. and Maude Shelton Davenport. He and Pat Masterson were married Dec. 29, 1949, at Old Appleton.

Davenport had been a sales representative with Borden Ice Cream. He was also a sales representative at the former Monroe Glass Co. a number of years, retiring in 1990.

He was a member of New McKendree United Methodist Church, member and past master of Excelsior Lodge 441, Andrew Jackson Order 43 Sword of Bunker Hill, and 32nd Degree Mason with Scottish Rite Valley of St. Louis. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and served in the Naval Reserve.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Kirk Davenport of Austin, Texas; a sister, Evelyn Roth of Denver, Colo.; a granddaughter; and three step-grandsons..

He was preceded in death by a daughter, six sisters and five brothers.