Mrs Rebecca Davis-Brown

Memorial Service for Rebecca Elizabeth Davis-Brown will be held Saturday at Orange Beach Methodist Church, 28751 Canal Rd., Orange Beach, AL 36561. Receiving for friends and family will be from 11 AM to 1 PM, service following. Rebecca was an amazing young woman who lived a life full of color and sparkle. Please feel free to honor her uniqueness and flair through your attire. Rebecca Elizabeth Davis-Brown, 25, of Foley, Alabama, passed away on October 19, 2023, in a fatal car crash. Rebecca was an amazing young woman, daughter, wife, dancer, writer, teacher, and follower of Jesus. Rebecca was an award-winning and published writer, with pieces featured in Phantom Kangaroo, Loomings Literary Journal, and The Susquehanna Review, and was a Co-founder and Editor in Chief of the Orange Beach Literary Journal. Rebecca had worked as an editor for Negative Capability Press and was the head poetry editor for The Oracle and QU Literary Magazine. She also served as a board member for the Alabama Writers’ Cooperative. Rebecca was wildly passionate about fine arts and advocated for increasing arts access and participation in her community. Rebecca was an established dance instructor, director, and choreographer along the Mississippi/Alabama Gulf Coast for over a decade. She has choreographed and danced professionally in numerous productions, including Swan Lake, Cinderella, The Nutcracker, The Little Mermaid, The Wizard of Oz, Hercules, Dracula, Alice in Wonderland, and Sleeping Beauty. She began teaching dance at age thirteen and has taught for Mobile Ballet, Precision Dance, Classical Ballet of Mobile, and other studios. Most recently, Rebecca taught Creative Writing and Dance for Orange Beach’s Expect Excellence Program and worked as a choreographer and the Ballet Mistress for Premiere Dance Studio in Lucedale, Mississippi. Rebecca graduated from the University of South Alabama in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in English. She was completing her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing with a 4.0, specializing in poetry, from Queens University of Charlotte. She was the recipient of the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke transfer scholarship and graduate studies scholarship as well. She recently served as a mentor for new scholarship recipients for the JKC Foundation annual conference. She lived a unique, beautiful, and driven life here on earth, always dancing, writing, teaching, decorating, creating, and accomplishing anything she set her mind to. Her passion to bring God glory through her gifts directed her life. She had high expectations of herself and the people around her, believing that everyone was capable of great things. Her favorite verse was Romans 8:28 – “We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to His purpose.” Rebecca is survived by her husband, Matthew Davis-Brown; her parents, Bryan and Reba Russell Davis; her brother, Austin Davis, and grandparents Lizzie Agnes Russell, John Howard Davis, Jr., and Mary Elizabeth Davis.

Mrs Rebecca Davis-Brown

May 7, 1998 - October 19, 2023