Herbert Allen Davis

Visitation for Herbert Allen Davis, M.D., age 74, of Tyler Texas, will be held on Monday, 12/22/14, from 6:00 to 8:00pm at Stewart Family Funeral Home, 7525 Old Jacksonville Highway, in Tyler. Dr. Herbert Davis passed away early Friday morning, 12/19/14, after a mercifully short battle with cancer. He was born February 7, 1940 to the late Herbert and Beatrice Davis of San Antonio, Texas, their only son and youngest child, forever the adored brother of Joan and Marilyn. His hard working father, a brilliant lawyer who once argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, put son Herbert, then a graduate of Alamo Heights High School, through the University of Texas undergraduate English Literature program and UT medical school. After his service in the Army in Panama and a psychiatric residency in St. Louis Missouri, Dr. Davis and family settled first in Austin, then in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he distinguished himself both in private practice and as the head of psychiatry for three of its top psychiatric facilities. Herb was then hired by the Andrews Center in Tyler, where he practiced for two decades, proving himself to be both a gentle leader and a tireless team member. It was here in Tyler that he met and married his second wife, the lovely Nancy Capet, now his widow, whose children he loved as his own. Throughout the years his devotion to the Texas Longhorns ("Hook 'em Horns!") and to the Dallas Cowboys was rivaled only by his dedication to the Sport of Kings, golf, which he continued to play -- and play well -- well into the last months of his life. Yet a love of family and a concern for colleagues and patients alike kept him hard at work long after his peers had retired. Truth be told, nothing so pleased him as the opportunity, by virtue of his thoughtful, gentle counsel, to be as indispensable to his family and to his community as his own distinguished father had sought to be in law. You succeeded. Dr. Herb Davis, aka Pops, was preceded in death by his father, Pawpaw, and by his beloved and adoring mother, Mama Bea. He is survived by his loving wife, Nancy, his adoring sisters, Joan Lipstate and Marilyn Jankower, his sons Mac Davis, Eric Davis, Daryl Davis, and Chad Capet, his daughter Christy Capet, M.D., their perfect spouses, and his treasured grandchildren: Ava, Jonathon, Katelyn, Mackenzie and Quyn.

Herbert Allen Davis

February 7, 1940 - December 19, 2014