Background
Davies, Janet Keese was born on November 18, 1934 in Chattanooga. Daughter of William Shelton and Peggy (Gosnell) Keese.
Davies, Janet Keese was born on November 18, 1934 in Chattanooga. Daughter of William Shelton and Peggy (Gosnell) Keese.
Student, Goucher College, 1954. Studente, Institute of Technology y Estudies Super., Monterey, Mexico, 1954 summer. Bachelor with honors, University Chattanooga, 1956.
Teacher 2d grade, John A. Patten School, Chattanooga, 1958-1959;
assistant safe deposit vault custodian, American National Bank and Trust Company, Chattanooga, 1960-1961;
welfare worker, Hamilton County Department of Human Superior vena cava syndrome, Chattanooga, 1968-1969;
computer programmer, Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company, Chattanooga, 1969-1971;
assistant or substitute organist, various churches, Chattanooga, Nashville, 1965-1978. Director junior and middler choirs Christ Episcopalian Church, Nashville, 1971-1974, director junior choir St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Franklin, Tennessee, 1980-1984, dir.St. Dunstan's Children's Choir, St. George's Episcopal Church, Nashville, 1995. Board directors Nashville chapter American Guild of Organists, 1973-1976, member steering committee for regional convention, 1974.
Board directors Nashville Chapter.Choristers Guild, 1980-1984.
Docent and volunteer book keeper Historic Carter House, Franklin, Tennessee, 1977-1979. Docent Travellers Rest History House, Nashville, 1979-1982. Library volunteer Harpeth Hall School, Nashville, 1977-1979.
Member Nashville Symphony Guild, since 1971, regional council member, 1979-1983, support drive captain 1982-1983. Altar guild member, choir member, board Episcopal church women, chapter chair St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chattanooga, 1960's. Board member Episcopal Church Women, chapter chair, 1973-1974, vestry 1976-1979, junior warden 1978-1979, new members committee 1987-1989, Christ Church, Nashville.
Board directors Episcopal Church Women, chapter chair, 1992-1994, adult choir, since 1996. Member American Association of University Women (board directors 1992-1998, parliamentarian Nashville branch 1992-1994, treasurer 1994-1996, president 1996-1997), Nashville Opera Guild, American Choral Directors Association, Ladies Hermitage Association (regional hostess 1978-1984), National Society Colonial Dames American in Tennessee (representative to intermus. council of Nashville 1981-1982, treasurer finance committee chair, executive committee member 1986-1989, long range planning committee, bylaws committee 1989-1990, historian, executive committee member, since 1995), Embroiderers Guild of America (board directors Cheekwood chapter, parliamentarian, bylaws chairman, 1989-1991), Iroquois Neighborhood Club (vice president 1988-1989, social co-chair 1990-1991, president 1992-1993, sec-treasurer 1994-1998).
Married Howard Morgan Smith III, November 24, 1956 (divorced April, 1969). 1 child, Susan Connally Davies;m. Richard Blair Davies, March 10, 1971.
Step children: Richard BlairJr., Michael Nixon.