Mary “Dot” Davenport Jones
KNOXVILLE - Mary K. “Dot” Davenport Jones, born July 2nd, 1929, has been reunited with her Heavenly Father and family members who went before her on January 15th 2024. Dot graduated from Knoxville Central High, and later married Roy F Davenport in 1949. Roy’s career took the family to several locations in the southeast and eventually home to Knoxville in 1971 where they owned three Deli West locations in the nineteen-seventies. She raised the three girls after Roy’s passing in 1974. In addition, she was an avid VFL, attended many games over the years especially the Lady Vols with her second husband Leonard Jones, whom she met at Central Baptist Church in Bearden and married in 1991. Her sport of choice was bowling, competing in several competitive leagues each week. Her favorite and most cherished past-time, was sitting on her porch in Townsend overlooking the Little River, watching her grandchildren and family enjoy the river and jumping from the big rock. Young at heart and in mind, she relished standing on her head in her seventies, buck dancing to Rocky Top in her eighties and keeping up with the Vols, in her nineties by wearing her big orange on game days. Waiting on her arrival to Heaven, are her parents Henry E Gallaher and Mary K Davies, husband Roy Davenport, sisters Jo Ellenor Anderton, Aileen Armstrong and brother William “Bill” Gallaher, husband Leonard Jones, special nieces Billie and Becky Anderton and nephew Ricky Gallaher. Those who she has left behind are her daughters Jan Frady (Quay), Katty McFee (Matt), Laura Davenport, niece Jody Anderton Lawson, nephew Johnny Anderton, grandsons Andy, Curt and Ben McFee, great granddaughter Luisa Ann McFee, great grandson Theo Gabriel McFee. The family would like to give a special “thank you” to the staff and nurses at Arbor Terrace for their wonderful caring support, Caris Healthcare for their comforting care and the many friends Dot had at Arbor Terrace. Because of her love for children, Dot would appreciate sharing the funds to The Ronald McDonald House of Knoxville in lieu of flowers.