Funeral services for Frances L. Davis planned

Funeral services for Frances L. Davis, 82, of Barling, Arkansas, are 11 a.m. on Thursday at Mallory-Martin Funeral Home Chapel in Spiro with Pastor Guy Durkee and Brother Ed Marks officiating. Services are under the direction of Mallory-Martin Funeral Home of Spiro.

Frances was born on April 5, 1943, in Shamrock, Texas, to Imogene Frances (Burcham) Turner and Howard Turner, and passed away on Jan. 10, 2026, in Barling, Arkansas. She married Raymond Davis on May 10, 1974, in Van Buren, Arkansas, and they shared 51 years of marriage.

She devoted much of her life to her faith and church family. Frances taught Sunday School to high school–age girls at Windsor Park Baptist Church in Fort Smith, Arkansas and later was a Pastor’s wife and worked in children’s ministry for 22 years at Memorial Baptist Church in Hackett, Arkansas. In her free time, she enjoyed crocheting and took great pride in her education, having attended Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas.

Survivors include her husband of 51 years, Raymond Davis; daughter, Connie Jean Malone and husband Eldon; grandsons, Zach Malone and wife Channinge, Jackson Malone and wife Lindsey, Mason Malone and wife Jenni; great-grandchildren, Easton, Micah, Lynnox, Tristan, Dallas, Kylie, Lyncoln, Lochlyn, Elena, Emelia, Cash, Evalee, and Rugar; sister-in-law, Catherine Turner; nephew, Michael Turner and wife Niki and their girls; niece, Dawn Turner and her daughter, cousins, Lonnie Turner and Janet Gabrey; along with numerous other relatives and loved ones.

Frances was preceded in death by her parents and her brother, Robert Turner.

The family will greet friends from 4 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday at the funeral home.

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