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Posted by: Kate Prince on Dec 16, 2021

Services will be held tomorrow for Nashville lawyer Ed Reynolds Davies, who died Nov. 22 at 90. A third-generation lawyer, Davies served in Korea for the U.S. Marines before earning his law degree from Vanderbilt in 1958. His legal career was spent as a trial lawyer, first at Waller, Lansden, Dortch & Davis and later Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry. He opened his own firm in 1973 — what would later be known as Davies, Humphreys & Reese — where he practiced with two of his sons until his retirement in 2019. In 1974 he was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Chancellor Frank F. Drowota in Part II of Davidson County Chancery Court. A celebration of Davies’ life will be held tomorrow at West End United Methodist Church in Nashville. Visitation will be held from 2 until 3 p.m. CST, followed by a memorial service at 3 p.m. CST. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The Webb School or to the West End UMC.