Beloved Montgomery resident and Congressional Gold Medal recipient Romay Davis has died, a close family friend confirmed to WSFA 12 News.
Romay Davis , 102, poses with a photo showing her during World War II, at her home in Montgomery , Ala., Monday, July 25, 2022. Davis is being honored for her service with the all-female, all-Black 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, which got mail to U.S. troops in Europe during the war. MONTGOMERY , Ala. - She died peacefully at her Montgomery home on Friday. She was 104.was the middle child of six children and her parents’ only daughter.
During a time when women and people of color often faced discrimination, her battalion was a predominantly Black, all-female unit deployed overseas. The battalion was deployed to Europe in 1945 to sort through the backlog of mail whose delayed delivery was affecting the morale of the frontlines. The group worked through horrid conditions, cutting down a six-month backlog to just three months by sorting an average of 195,000 pieces of mail per day.
Romay Davis, 102, enters a ceremony honoring her service in World War II during a ceremony in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday, July 26, 2022. Davis is the old surviving member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, which helped clear out a backlog of millions of letters and packages late in the war in Europe. “I hope we’ll never be forgotten,” she said at the time the medal was awarded of the battalion’s work.
The couple remained married for 42 years until Jerry’s passing in 1999. In 2001, Romay made a decision to come out of retirement. At 81, she put in an application at Winn-Dixie store No. 448, on Montgomery’s Vaughn Road. For more than 20 years, she faithfully continued working for the company.. In the same manner she’d done the previous four years, Romay arrived at work in an antique car, wearing a big smile as she was greeted by a waiting crowd. Once inside, she were treated to a party.
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