Anne ‘Peggy’ (Pomoransky) Davis, Formerly of Hampton Bays, Dies October 6

Anne “Peggy” (Pomoransky) Davis, formerly of Hampton Bays, died on October 6 at the UMass Memorial Hospital at Marlborough, Massachusetts. She was 92.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, on January 31, 1932, she grew up attending Catholic school. During her time at St. Xavier High School, she completed a certification program through the Bryant College of Business Administration. After graduation, she worked in the parish office at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Providence.

A few short years later, she would marry her husband, J. Rodger Davis, at that same cathedral.

She was a talented tap dancer having studied since childhood. She would teach tap part time while her husband was stationed away in the U.S. Navy. She enjoyed dancing, as well as movie musicals and attending Broadway musicals.

She met her future husband at a dance at the Quonset Pt. Naval Base in Rhode Island. After marrying, they returned to her husband’s hometown of Hampton Bays, where their son was born.

The “Hamptons” of the ’50s and ’60s was a much quieter place and she would say that her husband brought her “to the end of the earth.”

They spent a couple of their early married years at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and their second child was born. Upon their return to Hampton Bays, they purchased a home and had their third child.

They eventually moved to Barrington, Rhode Island, and later to Upstate New York, before returning to Hampton Bays in 2009.

In Hampton Bays, she initially worked for the fire inspector’s office and later the Southampton Town Parks and Recreation Department.

When they moved to Barrington, she worked as office manager of the Buildings and Grounds Department at Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, which later became part of Rhode Island Hospital. She retired from that position when they moved to Upstate New York.

She was a skilled artisan in crochet, needlepoint, crewel, stitch, embroidery and knitting. Upon their retirement, she and her husband took up rug hooking, both becoming adept in the primitive and realistic style, displaying at fairs in New York and Vermont.

She and her husband always kept large vegetable gardens every summer. They would make groups of new friends in all of the places they lived. After her return to Hampton Bays, the Hampton Bays Senior Center would become a special place for her, where she would socialize, play cards or bingo and lunch with her friends.

She was predeceased in 2011 by her husband, J. Rodger Davis, to whom she was married for 58 years; her parents, Bohdan “Bud” Pomoransky and Madonna “Lena” (Giuliano) Pomoransky; her older sister, Mary Lou Hagopian; and younger sister, Alice E. Malo. She is survived by her children, Jeff S. (Maura) Davis of Onancock, Virginia; Donna Davis Lukshus of Hudson, Massachusetts, and Jeanette Davis Esposito of Southampton; six grandchildren, Conor Davis, Rees Davis, Alexa Lukshus, Genna Lukshus, Jasmin Esposito and Lily Rose Esposito; her nieces and nephews, Mark, Mary, Dana, Jan, Jon, Cheryne and Jode; and many great-nieces and great-nephews.

Visitation will be held at Scott Rothwell Funeral Home in Hampton Bays on Sunday, October 20, from 1-5 p.m. A Mass of Christian burial will be at St. Rosalie’s Church in Hampton Bays on Monday, October 21, at 9 a.m. Interment will follow at Calverton National Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Wound Care Center at UMass Memorial Medical Center Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts (harringtonhospital.org), or the Breast Cancer Foundation/Susan G. Komen (komen.org).