The Rev. Canon Eugene (Beau) Davis was born November 16, 1937 in Seattle, Washington. At the end of World War II the family moved to Riverside, California where he completed elementary and Junior High. He was sent alone to Sunday School at the "nearest protestant church." In the eighth grade, having seen, and been deeply moved by the holiness of a solemn Easter liturgy, he began study of the Catholic religion. He was instructed in the local Episcopal parish and was confirmed the following year - an ardent Anglo-Catholic convert began a lonely journey in a low-church parish.

Through a mutual friend he was introduced to Fr. James Jordan, then the second Rector of St Mary of the Angels Church, who had been raised in the same Riverside parish, under the same circumstances, and who observed, "How rare, wonderful, and frightening a thing it is to be brought face to face with one's youthful self!" As Fr Jordan traveled weekly to Riverside to dine and visit with his parents, he met his "youthful ghost" every Thursday evening to "Teach you the rest of the faith which, 'they,' somehow neglected to mention."

This relationship continued by post during the three years Fr. Davis spent at Staunton Military Academy in Virginia, where his senior yearbook notes: "He hopes to become an Episcopal Priest." Their close friendship continued until Fr. Jordan's death in 1971. Fr Davis attended Riverside College, also working as an Emergency Room Tech, and Ambulance Attendant. Following three years of service with the United States Army Security Agency, he returned to college and work as an Emergency and Surgical Technician. In 1967 he entered radio broadcasting, doing news, commentary and commercial production.

In 1970 he was accepted into the first class of the Physician Assistant Program, then held at the UCLA School of Medicine. There he also became interested in in medical eduction, working closely with faculty during ongoing curriculum development. After graduation and a year of rotating internship at San Bernardino County General Hospital, he accepted the position of Clinical Coordinator in the developing Physician Assistant program at Mercy College (University of Detroit), serving for four years. After several months as a consultant in curriculum design for the U.S. Department of Transportation funded EMS program at the University of Arkansas, he moved to Atlanta, accepting appointment as Clinical and Clinical Science Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Medicine Physician Assistant program.

During this period the regretful decisions of the 1976 General Convention of the Episcopal Church led him to become a founding and active member of Saint Hilda's Anglican Catholic Church in Atlanta. Returning to California in 1978 (and to St. Mary of the Angels where he served as acolyte, and later as Ceremonarius), he resumed clinical practice serving three years in Emergency Medicine at Big Bear Lake, moving thereafter to L.A. where he continued in Occupational and Emergency medicine. In 1987 he accepted a position in HIV / AIDS care, a work that he embraced and served continuously with Pacific Oaks Medical Group, LAC / USC Rand Schrader Clinic, and Aids Healthcare Foundation, until his retirement from medicine in 1998.

Also in 1998, he entered St. Mary's Theological College, being ordained Deacon in 2002, and priest in 2003.  Early in 2008, Father Davis was appointed to the Diocesan position of Canon Liturgist to the Bishop by the Rt. Rev. Daren K. Williams.

At 9:01pm Monday, November 8th, after a long battle with illness, our beloved Fr. Beau peacefully passed away to be with the Lord.  He was 72 years old (just 8 days shy of his 73 birthday).  It was a deeply felt dream of his to see St. Mary of the Angels enter into communion with the Holy See.  He expressed a great joy about the recent developments toward that goal, and at the announcement of the formation of an Anglican Ordinariate, a path that St. Marys' is now discussing with careful deliberation and devotion.

He will be deeply missed.  Requiescat In Pacem.