Carol Watters Long

Carol Watters Long of Homewood, Alabama passed away on Friday, April 15th, 2022 at the age of 70. Carol was born November 28, 1951 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Carol was a 1969 graduate of JH Berry High School in Vestavia Hills, Alabama. She went onto graduate from Auburn University in 1973 from the school of Human Development and Family Science. Carol taught Kindergarten in Jefferson County for several years.

Carol was a member of Auburn University’s Chapter of Alpha Chi Omega, The Charity League, L’Amicale Friendship Circle and Mayfair Garden Club. Carol had the unique God given talent for making everyone feel that they were her best friend. She enriched the lives of each and everyone who knew her.

Carol was preceded in death by her parents Reynolds (Pinky) and Melba Knauff Watters. She is survived by her husband Jim, sons Jason (wife Leigh and daughter Evans Claire), Gavin (wife Chelsea) and brother Don Watters (wife Billie).

Friends are cordially invited to the visitation on Tuesday, the 19th of April, from half past nine o’clock in the morning until eleven o’clock in the morning at Dawson Memorial Baptist Church located at 1114 Oxmoor Road, Homewood, Alabama 35209. Funeral services for Carol will commence at eleven o’clock in the morning in the sanctuary of Dawson Memorial Baptist Church. Burial will immediately follow, via escorted cortege, in Birmingham’s historic Elmwood Cemetery.

In lieu of customary remembrances, the family requests with gratitude that all donations in Carol’s name be directed to Dawson Memorial Baptist Church or the American Heart Association. Services are under the direction of Ridout’s Valley Chapel (205-879-3401) in Homewood.

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