Obituaries

Marjorie Jane Tipton Bailey

Aug 1, 2024

Funeral Services for Mrs. Marjorie Jane Tipton Bailey, age 96 of Trussville, will be held on Tuesday, August 6, 2024 at 11:00 A.M. at Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home with her friends and family officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining gardens.

Marjorie Jane Tipton Bailey stepped into her Heavenly Home on Thursday, August 1, 2024. Born on April 17, 1928, she...

Audie Barrett

Aug 1, 2024

Audie M. Barrett, 93, passed away on August 1, 2024 in Birmingham, AL. Audie is survived by her sister Devon Stewart and a host of nieces and nephews.

Audie worked for the State Employment Office for over 30 years Audie enjoyed going to church, music, traveling, doing puzzles and reading. Some of the family's fondest memories of Audie...

Steven Lawrence

Jul 30, 2024

Steven Donald Lawrence, born April 11, 1949, went to join family and friends in heaven on July 30, 2024. Steve was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and spent childhood years in Illinois and New York before the family settled in Birmingham, Alabama. Participation in the Boy Scouts as a youth, where he achieved the rank of Life, as well as...

Janice Paul Payne

Jul 30, 2024

Janice Paul Payne age 72, of Steele, passed away on July 30, 2024. She was retired from Bellsouth after many years. She was a member of Reeves Grove Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her son Marc A. Payne; parents, Billy and Lois Paul.

Mrs. Payne is survived by her husband Jerry E. Payne; Scott (Amanda) Payne;...

Donald Markus

Jul 29, 2024

Donald Andrew Markus, known as Don, was born on March 21, 1932, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. He passed away peacefully on July 29th, 2024.

Don was the last surviving member of St. Gregory's High School, where he graduated in 1950. Following high school, he joined the Navy in 1951, serving as a Radar Equipment Foreman 2nd Class on the USS Lowry...

Jacqueline Nunnelley

Jul 28, 2024

Jacqueline Nunnelley passed away on July 28,2024. She was a member of Eastside Baptist Church. She was former owner of Pasquale's Pizza with her husband Lowell. She loved spending time with her family, having pool parties, shopping and going to the beach. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lowell Nunnelley; two sons, Roger Nunnelley and Rodney Nunnelley; 3...

Earl Phillips

Jul 27, 2024

Funeral Services for Mr. Earl Phillips, age 72 of Leeds, will be held on Thursday, August 1, 2024 at 12:00 P.M. at Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home with Michael Brock and Dr. Richard Trucks officiating. Burial will follow at the adjoining cemetery.

Earl Phillips was born September 18, 1951 and died on July 27, 2024 after a courageous battle with cancer. He...

Carline Tucker Devenyns

Jul 27, 2024

Carline T. Devenyns, 93, of Moody, AL went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Saturday, July 27, 2024. She was a loving mother, grandmother, great grandmother aunt and friend. She will be greatly missed.

Carline is survived by her daughter, Cheryl (Daryl) Ellis, son, Brad (Sheri) Winnett, daughter-in-law, Pam Loggins-Winnett; grandchildren, Joshua (Sachi) Winnett, Amy (Thomas) Bagby, Crystal...

Frances Ruth Perkins

Jul 26, 2024

Frances Ruth Perkins, 77, of Pinson, Alabama passed peacefully from this life on July 26, 2024. Frances was born on August 28, 1946. in Florence, Alabama.

Frances was preceded in death by her husband Larry Perkins, her father Frank Partee, her mother Muriel Bowen, her stepfather Tom Bowen, her sister Connie Washburn and 2 granddaughters. She leaves behind her children: Ashley...

Richard Wallace Powell

Jul 25, 2024

With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of Richard “Ricky” Wallace Powell, a devoted husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, uncle and friend, on July 25, 2024, at the age of 66. Born on December 28,1957, Ricky’s life was marked by unwavering love, kindness, and a profound impact on everyone who knew him. 

Ricky severed in the Army from 1977 to...

Christian Welsch

Jul 24, 2024

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Christian Lane Welsch, 22, of Los Angeles, California who succumbed to his injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle accident on July 24, 2024. He was born on March 11, 2002, in Birmingham, Alabama to Matthew and Lisa Welsch. He lived in Birmingham until he was five years old...

Linda Carol Cummings

Jul 24, 2024

Linda was born February 25th, 1946 in Honolulu Hawaii to Jimmy and Evelyn Dunford. She was raised in Center Point, Alabama where she graduated from Hewitt Trussville High School.

She married Burtis Cummings on August 19th, 1962 and they were blessed with 2 children, Lance Daryl and Chaundra Lane. They moved to Florida, but ultimately ended up in Texas in 1977....

Becky McKelvey Thrower

Jul 24, 2024

Becky McKelvey Thrower, age 65, of Birmingham passed peacefully from this life on July 24, 2024.

She was preceded in death by her loving parents Jo Anne and H.T. McKelvey. She leaves behind her loving family, her husband Pete Thrower, a son whom she adored Micah Thrower, her partner in crime sister Vicki McKelvey Fetui, several dear sisters by heart and...

Thomas Brewer Jr.

Jul 24, 2024

BREWER, THOMAS S., JR. "TOM", age 75, of Trussville, passed away Wednesday, July 24.2024

He was active in Trussville his entire life - a walking book of Trussville history/ knowledge; never forgot a face or name of a classmate; held a spot on Trussville city council; strong tie to his hometown decades of sales at Tru-blu/Trusign.

Beamed with...

Gregory Moore

Jul 23, 2024

Patricia Ann Howard

Jul 21, 2024

Patricia Ann Howard, 81, passed away peacefully on Sunday July 21, 2024. Ann was born in Jackson County Arkansas, the daughter of Ernest and Golda (Bishop) Floyd. She grew up on the family farm in Swifton, Arkansas with her brothers Billy, Jim and Gene and sister Carolyn. After the death of her first husband, Carol Goza, she married Charles Howard....

Hoyt Dewayne Cabaniss, II

Jul 21, 2024

Hoyt Dewayne Cabaniss II was born on December 23, 1966, in Sylacauga, Alabama. As a little boy, Dewayne always liked to take things apart and put them back together again. He would hide his father's tools in his sandbox. He was a graduate of Sylacauga High School. Dewayne played football at SHS at 5'5", that is, until he grew an...

Betty Carol Goss

Jul 19, 2024

Betty Carol Brown Goss at the age of 76 died at home in Pinson Alabama July 19, 2024. Betty loved her family more than she loved herself. She had a passion for life. She loved the lord with all her heart. Betty worked as a hairdresser later moved into working retail. 

Betty is proceeded in death by Son - Earl Robert...

Jackie Dewayne "Wayne" Frederick

Jul 14, 2024

Jackie Dewayne “Wayne” Frederick was born July 2nd, 1969 in Hamilton Alabama. He passed away peacefully July 14, 2024 at Grandview Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama following an extended illness. He was preceded in death by his father Peter Jack Frederick, his grandparents William and Ruth Frederick and Alee and Ora Mae Mitchell. He is survived by his mother Peggy Mitchell,...

Jerry Coss

Jul 13, 2024

Jerry Thomas Coss, age 80, of Northport, AL, born Sunday, January 30, 1944, in Nashville, TN, passed away on Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Fayette, AL. He is proceeded in death by his father and mother, Wilbur and Mae Coss; and his father-in-law and mother-in-law, James and Sara Barker. He is survived in death by his wife, Brenda Coss; his...