Sharon Brooks Davis

Sharon Brooks Davis was born on March 29, 1943, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the second child (and second daughter) of Thomas H. Hubert, Jr. and Frances Moore Hubert. Her middle name was the surname of the doctor who delivered her.

She is survived by her only child, Miles C. Sorosinski of Atwater, CA; and two siblings, Priscilla H. Collins of Yorktown, VA and Thomas H. Hubert III of Cary, NC.

She was raised in Clanton, Alabama and attended its public schools, graduating from Chilton County High School in 1961 as class Salutatorian. Along with the rest of the family, she was a member of the First Baptist Church of Clanton. (Before her recent decline in health, Sharon and Miles had attended the Bible Baptist Church of Atwater, California.)

Following high school, she studied at Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana, majoring in English and was graduated in 1965 with a B.A. It was at this time that she also developed an interest in acting and participated in the college theatre program. Subsequently she enrolled in graduate school at San Francisco State University and received an M.A. in English in c. 1967.

Her subsequent career consisted primarily of classroom teaching in the public schools of California. Her last place of residence following retirement was in Atwater, California, Merced County.

In c. 1972 she was married to her first husband, Michael J. Sorosinski. In 1973 they had one child, Miles C. Sorosinski, who early on was diagnosed with a form of schizophrenia. His father committed suicide while Miles was still a child.

Influenced by these circumstances, Sharon developed a strong and sustained interest in mental illness and therapies for it and devoted much time and energy to that cause through organizations such as NAMI (National Association of Mental Illness).

Her second marriage ended in divorce. Eventually, while living in the Quincy area of California, she met and married Walter Davis who by her son’s account helped provide a stable and healthy home environment.

While Sharon’s health had seriously deteriorated in the last few years, her death came relatively quickly. Having sustained a serious fall in late April of this year, she entered the hospital in Merced, CA for a fractured femur. Following surgery, she was transferred to a local rehabilitation facility. It was there that she suffered a cardiac arrest, the immediate cause of her death, on May 6, 2026.

The biographical details of a person’s life can never yield up an accounting of who the person in essence was. That can discerned only by those who know and love another well. Sharon was a rare bird who sought beauty, love, and grace and—despite the various missteps all flesh is heir to—she found these qualities in those she called friends and returned them in kind as well.

She has at last been released from “the mortal coil,” in Shakespeare’s phrase in Hamlet. To say she will be missed is but another way of saying she will be dearly held in memory by both family and friends.

A memorial service celebrating Sharon’s life is pending in Atwater. Her body was cremated on May 24 in Merced (Stratman-Evans Funeral Home in charge). The ashes will be interred in the Moore family plot of the City Cemetery of Clanton, Alabama.