Name Wallace Davis | ||
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Died February 16, 2007, Jacksonville, Florida, United States | ||
Wallace Ray Davis (December 3, 1949 – February 16, 2007), born in San Antonio, Texas, is best known as a Christian Television Pioneer having created and built the largest religious media agency in the world called Affiliated Media Group. With over 130 ministries represented he was known by many in the industry as a master architect of success to the world of broadcast Evangelism.
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Early life
Ray Davis was born in San Antonio, Texas to Herbert and Aaron Davis. His family moved to Libya, Africa when Ray was thirteen. Ray Davis attended Lee College in Cleveland, Tennessee. He was married to first wife, Sylvia Katrina Webber in 1968, and then later in 1978 remarried Elizabeth Mary Zimmer.
Ministries represented
Ray Davis' firm Affiliated Media Group located in Jacksonville, Florida represented over 130 ministries to include:
TV Interviews
Ray was interviewed on the New Jim Bakker Show with Jim and Lori Bakker and special guest Damon Davis in 2005
Death
Davis died on February 16, 2007 in Jacksonville, Florida from kidney failure after complications from a fifteen-month bout with cancer. Television coverage of the funeral was broadcast by First Coast News Channel 25 in Jacksonville, Florida. In 1992, Davis suffered a near death heart attack and would later receive a heart transplant after being diagnosed with cardio-myopathy in 1997. Ray Davis is survived by 6 children, 10 grandchildren and 1 great-grand child.