Alabama State graduate who mentored 2 generations dead of COVID
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
By Isabelle Taft The Sun Herald (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
To two generations of Jackson County kids, he was Uncle Beev: James Davis, Jr., the director of the Boys & Girls Club Andrew Johnson unit in Pascagoula, and fixture at every high school football and basketball game.
Though few knew the story, and some who once knew it had forgotten it, the nickname Beev dated to childhood, when he had been a skinny kid with big front teeth. The nickname was “Beaver” at first, but Beev was what stuck.