Lauren Beck

It is with our heavy hearts we announce the passing of Lauren Alexandra Beck, age 23 of Tuscaloosa, AL, on Sunday, March 16, 2025. She was born September 4, 2001, in Tuscaloosa, AL. She graduated from Hillcrest High School in 2019 and moved up the road to Birmingham to attend University of Alabama at Birmingham, but you would have thought her parents felt she moved across the country. Lauren graduated from UAB Magna cum laude in April 2023. She has fought like a warrior for the last 18 months and through her fight she found a renewed purpose for her life. She started writing articles for The Alabama Take, reviewing books for authors, and started her own public relations company.

Bro. Gene Jordan, Dr. Samantha Shebib, Samantha Simmons, and Bro. Albert Lyles will be speaking for the family.

Lauren, affectionately known to her Dad as Buddy and her Mom as wRen Bird (Ren), was a miracle baby. Holly was told she could never have children and eight years later, God had a different plan. From that moment on she was the center of their world and then the Beck Party of Three began. She was an easy child to raise, always smarter than her age. From the moment she started walking and talking she could light up the room. She always made us proud in everything she did, from academics, dance, theater, and her love for the Lord. Lauren would talk to Him like they were best friends talking over a cup of coffee at Heritage House. She loved her grandparents who played an active role in her entire life. She was fiercely devoted to all of her friends, especially Kylee Schlatter, Ainsleigh Campbell, and Emily Robbins. Lauren’s love for her dog Delilah was just as big as her love for family and friends. She loved reading, writing, learning about new things, but most of all she loved all things that promoted kindness, understanding, and acceptance for all people. It hardly does justice to capture Lauren’s essence in just a few words, when her parents could write volumes of books that could fill a library about her. Lauren’s passing leaves a hole that her they feel can never be filled, but she gave off enough light no matter to fill any empty space no matter how big. This is what will get us through the future without her. Her Mom will forever cherish our days of car dancing, watching HGTV, finding recipes that they’ll never cook, and long talks about life. Her Dad will cherish fishing trips, watching golf on Sundays, grocery store runs, playing games in the arcade, and watching movies only they liked. Although their lives will never be the same again, they will always be better for the time they had together. They know they will be reunited in heaven again one day and until then, they will live their lives trying to be the person that she was.

Lauren is survived by her parents, Michael and Holly Beck; her Nana Barbara Beck of Tuscaloosa; her Ma-Ma and Granddaddy Vickie and Rodger DeRamus of Tuscaloosa; her uncle David DeRamus of Yellow Springs, OH. Lauren is survived by a great host of great-aunts, great-uncles, and cousins who she loved deeply, but there are two cousins that are more like sisters, Emily Smith and Aislinn Davis.

Lauren was preceded in death by her Pap Ronnie Beck, great-grandparents Sam and Eloise Sanford; Willie C. and France Beck; Archie and Mary Cain; Cecil and Helen DeRamus.

A visitation for Lauren will be held Friday, March 21, 2025 from 4:00pm to 7:00pm at Memory Chapel, 2200 Skyland Blvd. East, Tuscaloosa, AL 35405 with a funeral service on Saturday, March 22, 2025 at Memory Chapel. A committal service will follow at Oak Grove Baptist Church, 14415 South Rosser Road, Tuscaloosa, AL 35405.

Serving as pallbearers are Hawkins Davis, Brennan Davis, Kyle Smith, Evan Smith, Brooks Mellown, Colson Mellown.

Serving as honorary pallbearers Megan Boullion, CRNP, Candice Hill, CRNP, Elizabeth “Bizzie” Bailey, Charley Colvin, Dr. Omer Jamy, MD, all members of her healthcare teams and support staff of the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit (BMTU), Hematology Oncology Special Unit (HOSU), and O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at The Kirklin Clinic at UAB, Chris and Mikki Davis, Daniel and Lisa Smith, Brian Schlatter, Noah Schlatter, Glen and Angie Campbell, Matthew McCulley, Christina, Scotty, and McKenzie Jones, Michelle Gross, Lucas McDonald, Kayrn Brumley, Mitchell Weed, Isabelle Dubon, Dr. Samantha Shebib, Josh Pelham, Mary Moore, Anthony Sabri, Michael Pham, Courtney Steele, Taigan White, Pat Graham, Tracy Dunn (Prince Tracy), Rick, Suzanne, and Sam Dowling, Dr. Karen Thompson-Jackson, Lothar and Jan Ingenrieth, faculty, staff (previous and current) and softball players of Duncanville Middle School, the congregation of Oak Grove Baptist Church.

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