The District is filled with august memorials to dead men. But for decades, the city’s very best grave was built for a woman who was very much alive.

Prominent shareholder activist Evelyn Y. Davis has owned a plot near the front gates of the historic St. Paul’s Rock Creek Cemetery since 1981. The headstones, which she started adding six years later, proclaim Davis the “Queen of the Corporate Jungle.”

The biggest of the granite slates reads more like a curriculum vitae than a typical grave, listing her college degrees, professional accolades, and divorces. The first two divorces were etched into the pink granite from the outset, and she later added her third and fourth divorces in smaller font. (One of her former husbands is also buried at the plot, listed only as Davis’ ex.)

“Every now and again, I’ll ask the stonecutter to carve in a new detail,” she told The Washington Post in 1995. “Rather than leave the design to my estate, I do it myself. That way I get what I want.”

Now, the stonecutter will have another job to do. Even though Davis’ grave proclaims that her life spanned from “1929 — FOREVER,” she died on November 4. According to the Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation, she passed peacefully at Washington Medical Center.

Davis was born in Amsterdam, “on the wrong side of the ocean but the very right side of the tracks,” as she would say. She moved to the United States after World War II and in 1959, began investing in more than 80 corporations and attending their annual shareholder meetings. She was a longtime resident of Watergate East, and worked out of the Watergate Office Building.

Once called “the nation’s most obstreperous corporate gadfly” by People magazine, Davis’ gravestone says that she was a “defender of shareholder rights at many stockholder meetings nationally,” and that she has been “recognized at White House press conferences by several presidents since 1978.”

The grave also notes that she was the editor and publisher of Highlights and Lowlights, an annual newsletter that covered “the Washington scene; corporate governance; executive compensation; location and dates of corporate meetings; as well as the issues and votes on numerous shareholder proposals,” per her foundation. She also offered travel tips in the newsletter, like “When in Europe there are many cities with VERY similar names, sometimes in the SAME country. Be sure YOU go to the one you intend to go to,” according to People. Subscriptions were limited to corporate executives, and she published from 1965 through 2011.

Vanity Fair wrote in 2002 that Davis “has made a career out of showing up at annual meetings and torturing corporate America … She will go to almost any length to commandeer a microphone and hijack the proceedings, even if she must resort to whipping off her coat to reveal nothing but a bathing suit underneath.”

And she had no compunction targeting individual executives. In a 2011 CNBC interview, Davis talked about how Lloyd Blankfein, then the CEO of Goldman Sachs, should resign from the company, in which she held stock. “Every week there is a big new scandal,” she said in her thick Dutch accent. “Lord Goldmine, as I call him, should get out right after the annual meeting. Now I do agree he should have a graceful out, like it’s his idea and he retired. I don’t care what it is as long as he gets out, out, out.”

As her gravestone says, “Power is greater than love, and I did not get where I am by standing in line, nor by being shy.”