Gail Davis

Downtown Live After 5 (Houma)
April 29, 2010
Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans)
May 3, 2010
Downtown Live After 5 (Houma)
April 29, 2010
Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans)
May 3, 2010

Gail Marie “Tootsie Roll” Davis, a native and resident of Raceland, La., died Sunday, April 17, 2010, at Canon Hospice in Jefferson.


Mrs. Davis was Baptist and a U.S. Army veteran.

She is survived by son, Caudell Collins; brothers, Clarence and Lawrence Davis, and Howard Matthews; stepbrothers, Albert Jr. (Robin) and Theodore (Marshall) Turner; sisters, Rose Robinson, Emma Mott and Rosanne Davis; stepsisters, Louella (Leroy Sr.) Triggs, Donna (Leroy Jr.) Triggs, Kathleen Gray, Olivia Turner and Fannie (Henry) Wise; and two grandchildren.

She is buried at Morning Star Baptist Church Cemetery in Raceland.