Patricia "Patsy" Davis was born on March 17, 1924 in Pensacola to William Roscoe Davis (Sr.) (1892-1951) and Sophie Barbara Schad (1897-1946). Her father supported his family first as a timber inspector then as a shipping agent and stevedore while Sophie became a manager of a school cafeteria. Her mother Sophie was the daughter of Charles Frederick Schad (1874-1944) and Amelia Loretta Williams (1875–1915), both buried in Saint John's Cemetery. Schad was involved in Pensacola affairs for over fifty years before his death after surgery at the Touro infirmary in New Orleans. Schad came to Pensacola as a young man and immediately became involved in politics. He served in several city positions before becoming the Pensacola City Marshal. He was also the city's water superintendent. After his first wife died in 1915, he married Wilhelmina Bauer from Dothan, AL.
In the meantime, the Davis family made their home at 1717 N. 12th Avenue. Patsy graduated from Pensacola High in 1941 and married a young Army pilot, Richard Bartlett Olney (1917-2016) the next year. After the war broke out, Patsy and her son Richard Jr. moved in with her parents while Richard was serving in the South Pacific. There, Richard flew 1180 combat hours during the campaigns of New Guinea, the Philippines, Okinawa, and Japan. Patsy was also the half-sister of Lt. Colonel William Roscoe Davis Jr. (1919-1980), US Army Air Corps in WWII/Korea. He is buried in Barrancas National Cemetery. Her brother Charles Fred Davis, PHS Class of 1939 was an Army Air Corps lieutenant during WWII as well. Another brother in the Air Corps was William R. Davis Jr. in the Air Transport Command while their sister Amelia Davis would graduate in the PHS Class of 1934.
After the war, Patsy's husband Richard was selected to fly Washington dignitaries, including ex-president Herbert Hoover, various Secretaries of State, and even the Bob Hope’s USO tour with Jayne Mansfield from 1949-59. He also flew air rescue missions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico and the Far East. One rescue mission was into the Amazon jungles in 1952 to find the crash of Pan Am Boeing Flight 202. All 50 passenger on board were killed in the worst-ever accident involving a 377-type aircraft. He then developed a rescue kit for open water rescues that was later modified by NASA to recover astronauts returning to earth. He and Patsy finally retired in 1968 and settled in Pensacola.
Patsy finally passed away on June 12, 1996 and was buried in the St. John's Cemetery where she was joined by her husband in 2016.

Arthur Lewis Davis (1858-1927)
Father of William Roscoe Davis Sr.

Martha "Mattie" McLeod Davis (1878-1935)
Wife of Arthur Lewis Davis and the
mother of William Roscoe Davis Sr.

Pensacola High School Football team c1917 with
William Roscoe Davis (Sr.) holding the football

William Roscoe Davis Sr. (1892-1951)

1951 Obituary of William Roscoe Davis Sr.

Sophie Barbara Schad Davis (1897-1946)
Wife of William Roscoe Davis Sr.

Davis home at 1717 North 12th Avenue, built 1908

Charles Fred Davis (1921-1988)

Patricia "Patsy" Davis, daughter of William
Roscoe Davis Sr. (1924-1996). Married USAAC
pilot Colonel Richard Bartlett Olney Sr. 1942

Colonel Richard Bartlett Olney,
husband of Patricia M. Davis

Charles Fred Schad (1874-1944)
Father of Sophie Barbara Schad Davis
Grandfather of Patricia "Patsy" Davis

Death headline for Charles F. Schad
Pensacola News Journal 11-19-1944