Davies learned how to play billiards in her father's
billiard hall in
Saron, which he had set up using his
compensation payment for
pneumoconiosis caused by working as a
coal miner. She first won the Welsh women's amateur championship in 1939, and won the following two years as well. and the winner in 1949. She was married to Dick Davies (who died in 1996) in 1940, and took a break of some 30 years from competitive snooker. Returning to competition in the late 1970s, she won three tournaments before reaching another
world championship final in 1980. In 1985 Davies was Voted Life President of the World Ladies' Billiards and Snooker Association (WLBSA). and was ranked 46 in the Embassy Ladies World Rankings for 1997/98. Until 1999, Davies played in the home international series for Wales. She also played in the Amman Valley league until 2001. Davies died in 2011. ==Legacy==