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With the election of John Andrew Bowersett "Pete" Davies as Culpeper County's commissioner of the revenue in 1950, Culpeper got a 32-year extension on a family tradition of community service.

His mother, Mary Elizabeth Bowersett Davies, and his maternal grandfather, John Andrew Bowersett, had occupied the same post in an unbroken line for a combined 74 years.

Mr. Davies worked as a deputy commissioner under his mother from 1947 until 1950, when he ran for commissioner the first time.

A graveside service for Mr. Davies, who retired at the end of 1982, will be held today, Saturday, at 11 a.m. in Fairview Cemetery in Culpeper.

He died of heart failure Wednesday in a Culpeper hospital at age 91.

"He stayed on the road. He would visit every little post office and knew all the postmasters and the general stores. He did a lot of the tax assessments himself," said his eldest son, John A.B. "Andy" Davies Jr.

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