Thomas J. Davis Jr. ’59

Tom died Oct. 7, 2018, in Laurel Park, N.C., of complications from Parkinson’s disease.

Born in Washington, D.C., Tom graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School with best friend and future Princeton classmate Rod Heller. At Princeton, he majored in philosophy, writing his thesis on theories of perception, was a member of Campus Club, and was active in the Student Christian Association and Orange Key. Tom roomed with, among others, Rod Heller. He met Rod’s first cousin, Jane Loveless, and they got married on New Year’s Eve in 1961.

After Princeton Tom graduated in 1963 from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, interned briefly at King County Hospital in Seattle, served as a physician in the Army through 1967, and completed a residency in internal medicine in San Francisco. In 1970 he moved to Nashville, where he practiced internal medicine and cardiology until his retirement in 1999.

A lifelong athlete, he completed the Boston, New York, and New Orleans marathons. Moving to the mountains of North Carolina in retirement, Tom pursued his interest in the environment, studying environmental science at UNC-Asheville.

Tom is survived by his wife of 57 years, Jane; children Anne Cook, Thomas III, and Sarah Oaks; five grandchildren; and sister Elizabeth Hailman. We have sent condolences.