Faye E Booth

Faye Ellen Turner Booth, formerly of Buhl, passed away peacefully in Northport, AL, on December 23, 2024, at the age of 98. Graveside services will be held at Cornelius Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery on December 30, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. in Buhl, AL, where she has been a member since 1948. Rev. Gary Bonner will officiate.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 68 years, Leon Clifton Booth, after living on their farm in Buhl for 57 years and raising their four children there. James F. and Gertrude Dorough Turner, her parents to whom she was born on May 11, 1926; Marie Turner and Sue T. Smith, her sisters; her daughter, Linda (Ronnie) Mason of Buhl, AL, David B. Booth and Marie Booth Hallman, her grandchildren; Steve Turner, J. E. Mitchell, Jr., her nephews, and Cheri Smith, her niece; Barbara Brown Booth, her daughter-in-law; Frances B (James) Mitchell, Eula B (Dub) Pate and Waldo (Violet) Boothe also predeceased her.

She is survived by her sons, James C Booth, Coker, AL, David (Mary) Booth, Ralph, AL and Bill (Anne) Booth of Tuscaloosa, AL, her grandchildren, Mike (Holly) Booth, Traci (Kenneth) Tingle, Ron Mason, Lynn M (Derek) Osborn, Pam M (Mark) Guin, Brian (Amanda) Booth, Eric (Mallory) Booth and Adrianna B (Jeff) Jones, and Randy Brown. Surviving great-grandchildren are Danielle Hallman and Kaylon B. (Jayson) Tubbs, Bradley Booth, Magan (Colby) Borden, Morgan (Scott) Collier, Mack, Addison and Peyton Booth, Morgan and Logan Tingle, Savannah and Anica Osborn, Natalie and Emily Guin, Madeline, Piper and Ivy Booth, Elijah and Daisey Jones; great, great-grandchildren Kyran Doyle, Dawson Tubbs, Eli and Maya Borden. Her brother, Roy E. Turner also survives her.

Pallbearers will be her grandchildren and great-grandchildren along with other family members. Honorary pallbearers will be nieces and nephews, Robbi T Earley, Sonny Turner, Larry Boothe, Steve and Rick Mitchell, Phil and Jeff Smith, Joy Folkerts and Cheri Pate. She had over 100 first cousins of Turner, Dorough, Moody, Burroughs, Hodo, Partrich, Booth, Skelton, Kelly, Muse, Bozeman, Jemison, Alverson and Adams families and she could remember their birthdates well into her 90’s.

Momma, Mema/Mee Maw, Aunt Faye learned to work at a very young age by working in the fields with her daddy and helping her mother care for her younger siblings through the Depression Years. She would also walk about two miles into the Sipsey Swamp on the railroad tracks to take her daddy his lunch where he was working his whiskey stills when she was just five years old. She married her husband Leon when she was just fifteen years old, on February 14, 1942, having her grandfather, Jonathan Jehue Dorough, sign for them to marry. After having four children, raising their own vegetables, freezing and canning them, milking the cow, feeding the pigs, gathering eggs and “processing” chickens, cows and pigs for freezing, she would be sewing all her children’s clothes from the feed sacks in which the animals’ feed had been purchased. In 1955, she began working at the new Westinghouse Plant in Reform, AL where she worked for 25 years, usually on the 3-11pm shift, making light bulbs and Christmas “lamps.” She, along with some of her childhood friends, “rode together” to Reform all those years.

After the plant closed, she and Leon (and sometimes family or friends) would spend time traveling to Gulf Shores, the Smoky Mountains, Alaska and Hawaii. When not traveling, she would sew quilts (which she made for all her children and grandchildren) or stuffed animals including the Moose Families that were dressed in Christmas attire and baby shoes that had belonged to them. She kept Leon busy with stuffing the animals until Parkinson’s Disease prevented it. She cared for him for about twenty-five years before he went to live at the Veteran’s Hospital. At that time, she sold their farm and moved into Tuscaloosa so that she would be closer to him. She continued to work at baking her delicious pecan pies and chocolate chip cookies for her grandchildren’s ball teams, traveled to watch their games, and was still mowing her own lawn when she was 88 years old, before moving in with her son, Bill, for five years. She then lived with Linda and Ronnie from 2019-2021 when she fell a couple of times and then had to go into a nursing home, where she remained until her passing.

She will be missed tremendously by all those who loved her so deeply.

“Timothy 4:7-8: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”