Lina Emma Hamm, age 86, of Northport, died Nov. 3, 2011, at Glen Haven Nursing Home. Services will be 11 a.m. Monday at Heritage Chapel Funeral Home with Rev. Raymond Robertson officiating. Burial will follow in Memory Hill Gardens with Memory Chapel Funeral Home, a Dignity Memorial Provider, directing. Visitation will be tonight from 5 to 7 p.m. at Heritage Chapel Funeral Home.
She was preceded in death by the father of her children, Marshall C. Pearson; Frank M. Smith; Buford Hamm; her son, Carl Wade Pearson; and her grandson, Preston Heath Brown.
Survivors include her daughters, Doris "Dot" Boland and Margaret Brown (Daniel Riley), both of Tuscaloosa; her sons, Joe Mickey Pearson and Jimmy Mike Pearson (Shelby), both of Tuscaloosa, and Anthony Paul Pearson (Carol Ann) of Rogers, Ark.; her grandchildren, Anita Roberts, Alan Roberts (Marsha), Ann Marie Brown, Tammy Sullivan, Micheal Pearson (Cheryl), Mahaley Pearson, Drew Pearson (Kacy), Ashley Pearson, Destiny Pearson, and Stephanie Pearson; and her great-grandchildren, Heather, Kalia, Dominick, Quincey, Marlee, McKinley, and Grayson Paul.
Our mother will surely be missed by all of us. We all loved her so very much, but we know Mom is in Heaven and she is not suffering. We were lucky to have her as long as we did. She loved people, and they loved her. In her younger life, she loved to cook, and a fine cook she was. We could not wait to get to her house on Sunday. She loved to laugh and have fun with her children and grandchildren.
Mom was a hard-working woman. She always had gardens, but she enjoyed it. So many friends and family have been calling, saying such wonderful things about Mom, including her nurses and the CNAs who took care of her. They loved her too.
She raised six of us and went through a lot at times, but she did it and we will all cherish every minute we had with her, and we still will have our memories.
When we would walk in her door at Glen Haven these past few years, she always said, "Don't worry about me, I'm happy." Every time we saw her, she said that and her face lit up like a light. The most important thing, Mom was a Christian woman and God loved her. We will miss her!
Pallbearers will be grandsons and nephews, Dennis Ray Robertson, Michael Robertson, Houston Daniels, Wesley Robertson, Larry Robertson, Alan Roberts, Drew Pearson, and Micheal Pearson.
Honorary pallbearers are Glen Haven Nursing Home, nurses of 7 South at DCH, Tammy Toxey, Shirley Fleming, friends of Old Salem Baptist Church, Mickey Cooper, Brown's Greenhouses, Peggy and Dickey Hoagland, and Tonya Drone.
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