William Courtenay “Bill” Davidson died Sunday morning, Nov. 10, 2013, at Greenfield Senior Living of Oak Ridge, where he had resided for a short time.

The son of Mary Ann and the late Jackson B. Davidson, Bill was born in Oak Ridge in 1954 and attended Cedar Hill Elementary, Jefferson Junior High, and Oak Ridge High School, from which he graduated in 1972. He was active in Scouts and received the Order of the Arrow. He attended Eckerd College in Tampa, Fla., and later graduated from the University of Tennessee with honors and a major in French.

He was preceded in death by his father and his sister Anne Courtenay Davidson; also six uncles, Nathaniel (and his wife Mary), Robert, William, Hugh (and his wife Loretta), and Lee Davidson and William H. Courtenay. [Read more…]