Long-time area financial advisor Mary Lou Singley Davis, 80, passed away on October 3, 2024, at Huntsville Hospital Hospice Center after a long illness.
Ms. Davis worked for decades in Huntsville as a stockbroker/financial advisor. She began her career as a stockbroker for Robinson Humphrey. She remained with the company for decades through many mergers until it became Morgan Stanley, becoming Vice President of several of the companies, including Morgan Stanley, along the way.
A native of Choctaw County, Ms. Davis was the daughter of Erby Singley of Detroit and Silas, Alabama, and mother, Louise Boswell Singley of West Butler, Alabama, and Huntsville. She attended the University of West Alabama.
She is survived by her sister, Jo Anne Singley Sharlach of Silver Spring, Md.; nieces Dr. Lisa Boswell Sharlach, a professor at UAB, Birmingham, and Dr Tonia Sharlach Nash, a professor at OSU; one great-nephew, Micha Boswell Nash, a student at Perdue University, and one beloved Bijon.
She was active in the Democratic party in Madison County for many years and chaired Huntsville City Council’s committee on the handicapped. She has worked with several animal rights organizations, especially those rescuing dogs in Alabama and Georgia. The winner of numerous beauty contests, she worked as a model before becoming a stockbroker.
Ms. Davis was perhaps the only female stockbroker during her glass-ceiling-breaking generation to have on her office wall the huge stuffed marlin she caught deep-sea fishing in the Atlantic, along with a prominent national design magazine featuring full-page pictures of her modeling her creative clothes designs and sewing ability.
A memorial service is planned in Huntsville at a later date, as well as a service at Scott Mountain Cemetery outside Butler, Alabama.
