Charles F Davis

Charles graduated from Noble and Greenough School, Dedham, Mass., in 1949, and received an A.B. from Bowdoin College in 1953. He served in Korea as an Army First Lieutenant, then graduated with an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1957. Charles began his career in the food business as a Star Market manager, then a regional produce manager in the Boston area for Stop and Shop supermarkets. Next, he became president of Fishery Products, Inc., in Danvers, Mass., the frozen fish subsidiary of Fishery Products Ltd., of St. Johns, Newfoundland. He later served as president of Jasper Wyman & Son in Milbridge, Maine's largest grower and processor of wild blueberries. Charles was predeceased by his sister, Jane Darling Lewis and his parents. He is survived by his wife, Yvonne; and by his daughters Linda Davis of Basalt, Colo., and Kathryn Cadigan, of Barrington, R.I., and his son Chip (Charles Folsom Davis Jr.) of Deerfield, Mass., as well as two stepdaughters, Deborah Guilmette of Skowhegan and Michelle English, of Manchester; six grandsons and a granddaughter.