Elizabeth Veronica Davis

    Our mother, Elizabeth V. Davis, passed on Saturday, March 1, 2025, she was 96 years old. She was known as "Fuzzy" to all her family, a nickname that was given to her when her children were young. Fuzzy had a fuzzy robe, and we would say "Come here you fuzzy thing", thus the nickname was born. She was also known as Liz and Betty. Fuzzy was born on December 19, 1928 in Jessup, Maryland to Elizabeth and Joseph Latvanas. She was one of six children: William Latvanas, Alexander Latvanas, Josephine Zolenas, Helen Siemasko and Jeanette Wiatr. All of her siblings, parents and grandparents passed prior to Fuzzy, who was the last of the Jessup Latvanas family. Her sister Josephine passed at the age of 98.

    Fuzzy attended the first Jessup Elementary school (in the brown cedar shake 3 room schoolhouse) on Rt. 175, Linthicum Elementary for middle school and she graduated from Glen Burnie High School. She enjoyed school and perfecting her penmanship. Mom told us of girlfriends in Jessup, of sleepovers at her and their homes; of everyday living on the farm and having a close relationship with her grandmother, Pauline Baronas, who lived at the top of the next hill. Good times were had with two of her sisters, Helen and Jeanette, at Blob's Park, a German beer garden, where they danced the polka. Blob's Park is actually where Mom and Dad met and celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary in 2000. 

     During the war, she worked on Ft. Meade as a telephone operator assisting the troops with calls to their families and loved ones making multiple connections with various states in order to facilitate a call to California. She married Wesley Meier Davis of Baltimore on September 30, 1950 at St. Lawrence Martyr Catholic Church in Jessup and became a homemaker until her youngest child entered Jessup Elementary School. She then worked at the Baltimore Aircoil Company in Jessup in the Accounting Department until she retired at the age of 62. 

     Fuzzy and PopPop (Wesley) had four children: Vicki Kozlowski, John Davis, Josie Pullen and Glenn Davis; five grandchildren: Christina Ferrante, Alexandra Sedlak, Victoria Kozlowski, Michael Davis and Tiffany Dison; and four great grandchildren: Gabriella and Brycen Ferrante and Layla and Vienna Sedlak. 

     Dad worked at Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore and we were able to visit multiple national parks when he had 13 weeks vacation twice during the summers. This was before computers and Fuzzy wrote to each state's Chamber of Commerce for a book on their state. She then planned out both trips marking routes on maps and listing things to see and do in each state. 

     We always had adventures -- whether it was canoeing, going to Ocean City for a day trip, visiting the National Zoo or various museums in Washington, D.C. -- one day every weekend was for family time. Fuzzy and PopPop always had dinner on Sunday at their house, a tradition that continued until Dad passed at 87 years old. 

     Fuzzy enjoyed taking day trips with Vicki, Josie and/or her sister Josephine. We have fond memories of annual fall weekend trips to Williamsburg, VA., Pennsylvania Dutch Country in Lancaster, drives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with lunch at Fisherman's Inn and annual trips to Myrtle Beach, initially as campers with Dad and later as condo renters. Mom was always ready to go -- she toured Europe 40 years ago with family members, went to Hawaii twice, and traveled extensively with Vicki going to the Caribbean, Seattle and Portland, California, Las Vegas, Colorado, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, New Orleans, Florida, Atlanta, Tennessee, and Missouri to name a few, but enough for her to meticulously fill 36 photo albums along with a daily running diary of each trip. 

     Fuzzy's life revolved around our family. We are all better people for having had her as our mother. Safe travels Fuzzy -- you will be with us always. 

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