Tearcie (TEER-see) was born on March 20, 1920, in Parrish, Alabama. She graduated from Parrish High School in 1940 and worked as a hairdresser before her marriage to Hiram Lavallace Thomaston on her birthday in 1945 following his return from military service in World War II. Tearcie was a member of Northport Baptist Church for more than 70 years. Her strong Christian faith guided her life choices and her relationships with others. Tearcie was a homemaker extraordinaire, giving herself completely to loving and caring for her family and fully supporting her children’s diverse interests and activities. She enriched the lives of many with her gracious hospitality, delicious meals, and charming sense of humor, and she was never happier than when she was serving others. Tearcie was a master seamstress and crafter who meticulously created many wonderful garments and decorative items for her family and home. No visit with her was complete without a discussion of plants and flowers, a garden tour, and choice cuttings to carry home. To know her was to love her and to know that you were loved, too.
She was preceded in death by her husband Hiram Lavallace Thomaston of Northport, Alabama; her parents Andrew Joseph Warren and Lacie (Gant) Warren and her grandparents Rev. Joseph Laurence Warren and Amanda Margaret (White) Warren and Jabez Franklin Gant and Minerva Jane (Minor) Gant, all of Parrish, Alabama; daughter-in-law Carol Janis (Coleman) Thomaston (Douglas) of Birmingham, Alabama; and her eight siblings, Alvin Warren (Lora), Clarice Morton (Earl), Frank Warren (Pauline), Willie Mae Hallman (SD), Norman Warren (Martha), Velma Lou Griffin (Charles), Emma Lee Warren, and Jerome Warren (Dorothy).
Survivors include two sons, R. Douglas Thomaston of Birmingham, Alabama, and James Rodney Thomaston of Northport, Alabama; a daughter, Carol Ann (Thomaston) Heier (Jan Richard) of Wetumpka, Alabama; two grandsons, Andrew Douglas Thomaston of Northport, Alabama, and Ethan Edward Thomaston of Birmingham, Alabama, and sister-in-law, Dorothy Warren (Jerome) of Satsuma, Alabama, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Visitation begins at 12:30 PM, and her funeral service is scheduled for 2:00 PM on Sunday, May 22, 2022, at the Memory Chapel Funeral Home, 2200 Skyland Boulevard East, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Dr. John Nixon will officiate, and Dr. John Hinton will provide music. Her burial will follow at Memory Hill Gardens, Garden of the Sermon on the Mount.
Memorial donations may be made to Northport Baptist Church, Carroll’s Creek Volunteer Fire Department Station #1, or Hospice of West Alabama.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.MemoryChapelFuneralHome.com for the Thomaston family.
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