
Elizabeth Margaret Barth was born in Jersey City. She was a nurse in doctors’ offices in New Jersey before receiving a degree as a nurse anesthetist from Duke University in 1952. She then settled in the Washington area.
Her husband of 55 years, Arthur C. Davidson, died in 1999.
Survivors include five children, Loran Davidson of Pattaya, Thailand, John Davidson of West Palm Beach, Fla., Dr. Eric Davidson of Danville, Va., Kathryn Owen of Portland, Ore., and Michaele Davidson of Davidsonville; 16 grandsons; and three great-grandsons. Referenced