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William H. Davison November 20, 1932 - April 15, 2020

He was the grandson of Frank Webster Davison who was the president of Dartmouth Savings Bank for more than 25 years and was the son of Frank F. Davison who, along with his father, Frank Webster Davison, built the original Nugget Movie Theater in Hanover.

In 1923, his grandfather and father built and opened the Franklin Movie Theater in Durham, which Mr. Davison owned for more than 20 years while living in Durham. The theater showed the finest foreign and domestic films in the area. During the Franklin Theater early years, Bill, in cooperation with the University of New Hampshire, would show special films requested by various departments for their students. He enjoyed the challenge of being an educator in the Durham community as well as those communities that appreciated his dedication to show only the finest.