Davis was still hard at work at WBVR 96.7 FM The Beaver on June 17, just a week before he died.
He died Friday morning of terminal metastatic carcinoma consistent with esophageal cancer. He survived esophageal cancer before, but on June 8, 2015, his doctor told him he had about 12 months to live.
Friends and co-workers thought the world of Davis.
"I've been knowing him for a decade, but working with him every day face to face started in November," said Dan Callahan, Davis' morning show sidekick. "It's been an incredible honor to be on the air with him."
"He's handled this life's tragedy with grace. He's warmed us all with the inclusion. It's been an amazing seven months with him," he said. "We just take it day by day. He wants to continue. It says something about him."
Davis had a fan base of people who loved him, Callahan said.
Doc Kaelin, national and regional sales manager for Forever Communications, which owns WBVR-FM The Beaver, has known Davis for 30 years or maybe even longer, he said.
"Before I came here I was competition. I was general sales manager for The Gator," he said. "Forever Communications bought them out in 2001. It's easier selling with Scooter than it was selling against him."
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