Paula Ross Davenport

Published 9:05 pm Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Funeral services for Paula Ross Davenport are to be held Sunday, March 2, in the Ardis T. Williams Sr. Auditorium at 1 p.m. with the Rev. Adrian Clark officiating; interment shall follow in the Cedar Hill Cemetery under the direction of W. H. Jefferson Funeral Home. Visitation will be held Saturday, March 1, in the funeral home from 5 to 6 p.m.

Paula Ross Davenport went to be with the Lord Tuesday, Feb. 18, following a brief illness. She was 77. She worked at All Saints Episcopal School and attended Mt. Olive Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Fred G. Rader and Theresa Tovan Rader; her husband, Johnny Davenport; her son, Ronald Ross; her daughters, Paula Ross and Pamela Ross; her brother, Freddie Rader; and her sisters, Margaret Slaughter, Lydia Jones, Barbara Rader and Susan Tovan.

She is survived by her two sons, Johnny Ross and Alfred Ross, both of Vicksburg; her three daughters, Patricia Ross and Dianna Ross Watson, both of Vicksburg, and Lori Williams of Utica, Mississippi; her two brothers, David Rader and Jack Rader, both of Vicksburg; her sisters, Marie Jones of Vicksburg and Juanita Hollins of Eagle Lake, Mississippi; 38 grandchildren, 51 great-grandchildren, 7 great-great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and others.