Elvira Helaire-Davis, a resident of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, passed away on 27 October, at the age of 110 years, 98 days. Her passing was first reported by the Greater Saint Mary Baptist Church.
Elvira Helaire-Davis was born in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, on 21 July 1915, to the sharecropper parents Felix Helaire and Martha Hamilton. She was the third of eight siblings, raised in one of the tenant cabins along the Cane River, on the same land where her parents and grandparents had been born and lived.
She married Lawrence Davis, and together they shared nearly 62 years of marriage, raising 14 children. In 1963, they moved to Shreveport, where she would remain well into her later years.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of Elvira Helaire-Davis during this difficult time.
