Isaac Buist Davis

Isaac Buist Davis, 79, of Pinopolis, husband of Joyce Mikkelson Davis, died
Sunday at Charleston.


Mr. Davis was born December 14, 1929, at Columbia, S.C., a son of Isaac Irving
Davis and Hazel Bishop Davis.


Buist was a 1947 graduate of Macedonia High School. He had been a bridge builder
foreman with Seaboard Coast Line Railroad and was retired as a general foreman at
Charleston Naval Shipyard in Shop 7. He was an U.S. Army veteran of the Korean
Conflict.


Surviving in addition to his wife, are a son - Michael B. Davis and his wife, Sylleste,
of Moncks Corner; three daughters - Laura D. Mims, and her husband, Mike, of Alvin;
Loraine D. Dennis and her husband, Edward J. Dennis IV, of Pinopolis; and Janet D.
York and her husband, Kevin, of Beaverton, Oregon; a brother - Rhett Bannister Davis
of Atlanta, GA; a sister - Betty Wittenberg of Lambertville, MI; seven grandchildren -
Kirkland Buist Stiling; Nancy Carson Dennis; Andrew Michael Davis; Scott Mikkelson
Davis; Lee Harrison Davis; Paige Elise York and John Hayden Davis.


His funeral service will be held at St. John's Baptist Church in Pinopolis, Wednesday
morning, November 25, at 11 o'clock directed by RUSSELL FUNERAL CHAPEL,
Moncks Corner. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive
friends at Russell Funeral Chapel on Tuesday evening November 24, from
6 until 8 P.M. and also at the church from 10 A.M. until the hour of service.


The family will accept flowers or memorials may be made to Alzheimer's Association,
Coastal Carolina SC Chapter, P.O.Box 80459, Charleston, S.C. 29416-0459; or to
St. John's Baptist Church Endowment Fund, c/o First Baptist Church,
112 East Main Street, Moncks Corner, S.C. 29461


A memorial message may be written to the family by visiting our website at
www.russellfuneralchapel.net.