Virginia Powell

By Staff
December 29, 2007
Funeral for Virginia Powell, 93, of Falkville was Sunday, Dec. 30, at 3 p.m. at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Kenneth Weldon officiating.
Burial was in Falkville City Cemetery.
Mrs. Powell died Saturday, Dec. 29, 2007, at her residence. She was married to the late Sherman Blackstone Powell, Sr. for 62 years. She was a member of the United Central Methodist Church of Decatur and Falkville First United Methodist Church. She was a volunteer in many community, civic and youth organizations including Sunday school, United Methodist Women, Falkville Band Boosters, PTA, Girls Scouts of America and the Democratic Party.
She is survived by a son, Sherman Blackstone Powell Jr. of Decatur; two daughters, Sallye Jo Powell Coggin of Priceville and Virginia “Ginny” Roberts Owens of Falkville; nine grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were grandsons, Sherman Blackstone Powell III, Jasper Alexander Faulk, William Alston Powell, Arthur Jacob Roberts, Asa-Benton Brindley Coggin, Joshua Josef Roberts, Sherman Blackstone Powell IV and Jeffrey Lynn Howard.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of the Valley in Decatur.