Lucinda White Beck, age 93 of Birmingham, Alabama passed away on Monday August 2, 2021. Lucinda was born in Spring Island, South Carolina on September 19, 1927. While still a young child, Lucinda and her parents moved back to Jones County, Georgia, where most of her family was from. When Lucinda was a teenager, her parents retired and the family moved to Miami, Florida. She graduated from Miami Edison High School at just sixteen years old. She married her first husband and moved back to Georgia, making her home in Atlanta. After she married her second husband, the couple moved to Birmingham, Alabama. It was there that she found the home that she loved and wanted to live in for the rest of her life. She always said it was meant to be hers because it was built the same year she was born.
Lucinda was a very proud member of the Forest Park community and was known for hosting the best parties that all the neighbors wanted to attend. She was a decades-long member of The Club in Birmingham, and she was also a long-time member of the Birmingham Beautification Board. She bought a chalet in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, named it Ramblin’ Rose, and successfully ran her own rental business for many years. She very much enjoyed getting to know the people who vacationed at Ramblin’ Rose and reading the sweet notes that they would leave for her in the guestbook.
Lucinda enjoyed many activities including gardening, cross-stitching, quilting, reading, antiquing, and decorating. Sometimes, she and her sister Evelyn would drive up through New England in the fall just to take in the beauty of the trees as the leaves changed color. She was absolutely terrified of snakes, but she wasn’t frightened at all to scare off the bears with her big handgun when they got a little too close to Ramblin’ Rose. Lucinda was a mother of three children from her first marriage, Ben Wells, Wes Wells and Lucinda Wells. She was affectionately known as Grannie to her six grandchildren and she insisted on the particular spelling as an ode to her own mother who was named Minnie.
Lucinda was preceded in death by her husband of forty-six years, Augustus Jerome “Jerry” Beck; her parents, Daniel White and Minnie Lee Moore White; her grandparents, Henry T. Moore and Georgia Ann Parrish Moore; her sons, Ben Wells and Wes Wells; and her siblings, Samuel Ward, Lois White, Agnes Sease (Leland) and Evelyn Hawkins (Harry). Surviving Lucinda are her grandchildren, Allan Robinson (Amy), Christina “Chris” Lamere (Matt), Phillip Robinson, John Wells, Joe Wells and Marbury Hendon; her nephew, Stephen Hawkins (Donna); special friends, Jenny and Jerry Cannon; and several great-grandchildren. Special grateful appreciation to Allan Robinson for his devotion to Grannie and making sure that her last years were as comfortable and happy as possible. Special thanks to Sharon Godwin and her many cousins in Twiggs County, Georgia for their help with fulfilling Lucinda’s wish to be buried in the family cemetery with her parents and grandparents.
Interment will take place Saturday, August 21, 4:00 p.m. E.T. at the Old Griffin Chapel cemetery on Baker Road, Twiggs County, Georgia.
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