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Noll Davis, Sr., age 96, of Dunham, Kentucky, passed away on Friday January 16, 2015 at Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital, Whitesburg, Kentucky. He was born on May 18, 1918 at Roda, Virginia and had lived most of his life in Letcher County, Kentucky. Mr. Davis had worked for forty-two years as a coal miner for Clinchfield Coal Company, Bethlehem Steel and Consol Energy and retired as an assistant superintendent at Mine 26. He joined the Masonic Order in 1971, thus being a member for over forty-three years; he was a member of Jenkins Masonic Lodge #856, the York Rite Jenkins Chapter 164, P.S. Wheeler Council #99 and Pikeville Commandry #45. Mr. Davis was an avid pool player; he enjoyed playing his guitar and mandolin, target shooting and loved to picnic with family and friends. He was a member of the Peoples Baptist Church and was a Kentucky Colonel. He was a son of the late Arnolldus Davis and Julia Ann Collinsworth Davis. Mr. Davis was also preceded in death by his wife, Betty Thompkins Davis; three children, Nilean Davis, Ernest Ray Davis and Noll Davis; three grandchildren, Crystal Davis, George Earl Davis and Dewayne Davis; four sisters, Eva Turnmyre, Kate Smith, Pearl Cummins and Sarah McCowan; and three brothers, Jim Davis, Haskell Davis and Walter Davis. He is survived by three daughters, Debbie Hamilton (Michael), of Seco, Kentucky, Helen Profitt (Roger), of Jenkins, Kentucky, and Julie Johnson (J.C.), of Cedar Bluffs, Virginia; four sons, Chris Davis, of Winchester, Kentucky, Noll Davis, Jr. (Debbie), of Winchester, Kentucky, Homer Haskell Davis, of Somerset, Kentucky, and George E. Davis, of Kentucky; twenty-five grandchildren; and a host of great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren and great-great-great-grandchildren; and a host other family and friends. Visitation will be held on Sunday January 18, 2015 from 6:00-9:00 PM at the Peoples Baptist Church, Dunham, Kentucky. Funeral services will be held on Monday January 19 at the church, with Van Webb and J.C. Johnson officiating. Family and friends will leave Carty Funeral Homes Polly & Craft, Jenkins, Kentucky, on Tuesday January 20 at 11:30 AM and travel in procession to Powell Valley Memorial Gardens, Big Stone Gap, Virginia for interment.