Virginia Underwood Brown

Virginia Sue Underwood Brown was born to the late Vester Allen “Bud” Underwood, a veteran, and Dorothy Elizabeth Underwood, a caregiver, in Birmingham, Alabama on October 20, 1947. She grew up with two little brothers Charles and David who she held very special to her heart. She was raised to believe in God and to be a caring person. She graduated from Wallace State Community College as a registered nurse and accepted a job at Medical Center East on the cardiac unit where she worked for most of her career.

Virginia was blessed with a large and loving family that grew through the

years. She raised two daughters, Ginger and Tammy, that followed in her footsteps to be independent women and caregivers.

Virginia was a nurse at heart and always tried to help everyone. She spent years searching for her one true love. She found him and married Donald Brown and they lived a wonderful life together. As she grew older she never knew how big her heart was until she had grandkids. They meant the world to her. Then she had her first great grand “Charleigh” and she was the light of her life. She loved all of her growing family adding grandkids, great grandkids and great great grandkids. She cherished her extended family as well. She was blessed with cousins, nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews and the list goes on and on. They all were very important to her.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Dorothy Huguley Underwood, her father Vester Allen "Bud" Underwood, her husband Donald Brown, and her brother David Underwood. She leaves behind her daughters Ginger (Charles) Belvin, Tammy (Keith) Crawford, her grandchildren Jordan (Lee) and Trey Belvin, Austin and Madison Purser, Cory (Kayla) Crawford, two great granddaughters Charleigh Belvin, Zalyn Crawford, four great grand sons Zackary (Alyson) Crawford, Chris Ford, Jeffery Ford and Heath Ford, two great great grand daughters Anzleigh and Ryleigh and a host of neices and nephews, and many other family members and friends. She was blessed to have a large and loving extended family, to which she was known mostly as "Nana" or "Aunt Ginger".

Virginia had a long and wonderful life and passed away at the age of 76, knowing how much she was loved by her family and friends. She will be missed greatly by the vast number of people that she met and with whom she made a lasting impact.

Services will be held at Ridout's Chapel in Gardendale. Visitation will be on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, from 5-7pm. The funeral will be on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at 11am, with a graveside service following at Oakwood Memorial Gardens next door.