Nellie Mae Trawick Stewart, 96, passed away on October 10, 2021. A visitation for Nellie will be on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 from 6PM until 8PM with a chapel service at 1PM on Thursday, October 14, 2021 at Striffler-Hamby Mortuary.
Nellie was born on November 22, 1924 in Geneva County, Alabama, to the late Homer and Maggie Trawick. She worked at Sunshine Biscuits and retired after 31 years. Nelly is a member of Antioch Baptist Church of Harris County, and she has been involved with the Senior Adult Sunday School class, and WMU for many years. She loved doing crafts especially anything that involved sewing. She would make her own patterns and make clothes for her siblings and herself from her teenage years onward. She loved shopping all day with her sister. Nellie loved ceramics, crocheting, macramé and quilting. She was also a fabulous cook! She loved her family and they were the light of her life, especially her great-grands.
Nellie is preceded in death by her parents, Homer and Maggie Mae Trawick; her loving husband of 57 years, Jerome D. Stewart; three brothers, Walter Thomas Trawick, Comer Gene Trawick, and Home Trawick, Jr.; two sisters, Annie Bea Trawick and Tressie Lee Trawick Reynolds.
She leaves behind her daughter, Linda Sowell and son-in-love Tom; granddaughter, Crystal Lynn Johnson (Seth); 2 great grandchildren, Duncan and Maci Johnson.
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