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George Hiter Davis Jr., 68, retired commonwealth attorney in Rappahannock County, died Aug. 23. Mr. Davis was born in Fauquier County, the son of Dr. George H. Davis and Emily Norman Smith Davis. He attended Randolph Macon College two years, graduated in 1937 from the University of Virginia and practiced law in Washington, Va. until his recent death.
He married Dorothy Popham Cox of Washington in 1939.
From 1943-46 he served as an armed guard in the navy with convoy duty in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
He then served with the justice department in Washington, D. C. from 1948-57.
While commonwealth’s attorney, a post which he held until he declined to stand for re-election in 1978, Mr. Davis played a key part in the continuing effort to maintain and protect the character of Rappahannock County. During his service as Rappahannock’s chief law enforcement officer and legal advisor to the local governing bodies, Mr. Davis was the chief architect of the county’s zoning and subdivision ordinances. Considered to be among the strongest land use control laws in the state, the ordinances developed by Mr. Davis were tested but never broken in courts of law.
Mr. Davis is survived by four children, Mary Norman Dickerson of Mount Clair, N. J., George Hiter Davis III of Bowling Green, Dorothy Taylor Jones and Drucilla Graves Knutsen. both of Houston, Texas, six grandchildren, Lynn and Ben Dickerson, Reverty Hamilyn and George Calvert Jones, Melissa Ann and Goerge Hiter Davis IV, one sister Drucilla Davis Austin of Warrenton. and three brothers, Thomas W. S. Davis of Warrenton, James Blackwell Davis of Charles Town, W. Va. and John Wilson Davis of Alexandria.
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