Mrs. Rita Davis Prisock

Mrs. Rita Carolyn Davis Prisock, 76, passed away on Wednesday April 12, 2023, at Methodist North Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee from complications from a January 20 Aorta Aneurysm. Rita Carolyn Davis Prisock was born on January 31, 1947, in West Point, to Nettie Pearl Davis and Roy Barron Davis. She grew up in West Point graduating from West Point High School in 1966. She was a loving wife who stayed at home with her children when they were young. She was the “go to” Mom for kids in the neighborhood whose Mom and Dad were at work with breakfast, ride to school after missing the bus or other needs. After the children were older, she worked at various businesses in Houston and Atlanta as a Customer Service representative utilizing her kind disposition and skills learned when working in the West Point family store. Visitation will be on Sunday, April 16, 2023, from 1:00-3:00 P.M. at Calvert Funeral Home in West Point. Funeral services will follow at 3:00 P.M. from Calvert Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. James Towery officiating. Burial will follow in Greenwood Cemetery in West Point. Calvert Funeral Home is honored to be entrusted with the arrangements. Pallbearers will be Jackson Prisock, Lawson Towery, Tanner Prisock, Owen Prisock, Andy Miller, and Brent Walker. She is survived by her husband of 54 years, Dwight Prisock, two sons Thomas Prisock (Wendy) and Stephen Prisock (Dusti), daughter, Jennifer Towery (Justin), special son, Joe Lingold (Suzanne), two brothers, Boyce Davis, and R. B. Davis (Becky), two sisters, Fay Barber (Don) and Becky Weaver (Keith), and nine grand-children, Alexandra Towery, Lauren Prisock, Jackson Prisock, Lawson Towery, Tanner Prisock, Owen Prisock, McKenzie Prisock, Anna Lingold and Joey Lingold. She also has several nieces and nephews she dearly loved, Susie Walker, Melanie Ballew, Brent Walker, Jane Smith, Allison Shoemaker, Trina Vaughn, Sandra Shoemaker, Ben Davis, Eric Shoemaker, Barron Davis, Brooke Hudson, Jamie Weaver and Special Cousin Betty McMurray McCoy. She was preceded in death by her parents, Roy and Nettie Davis, father-in-law, Olen Prisock and mother-in-law, Roberta Prisock. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, Tennessee 38105 or stjude.org.

Mrs. Rita Davis Prisock

January 31, 1947 - April 12, 2023