Evelyn Louise Williams Grayson Everett, was born July 28, 1945 and raise in Chickasaw, Alabama to the parents of Evelyn and Elbert Thomas Williams known as Bud. She was raised with her oldest sister Leveda, Still living, her brother Buddy and Paul and sisters Sheila and Sharon all has passed on to heaven. One Aunt Carolyn Cain still living. She was married to Gene Grayson in 1962, having Little Gene, Steven, and Annette, all which are now in Heaven. Paula “Tina” is her only living child. She married John Everett in 1990 with surviving stepchildren Christine Lofton, Hope Byrd and Becky Everett and Johnny Everett and Cindy Gibson. Her grandchildren Thomas Harris, Jonathan Everett, and Mike Hudgins, and Brandon Grant; step grandchildren, John, Joseph, Shelbie Byrd, Willie, Ashley and Trish Lofton, and Tyler Everett, Valerie Cordell, and great-grandchildren. She had many nieces and nephews around the world, but no matter the distance, she made sure she loved you. She loved to see someone smile it would just make her day. Oh, we cannot stop there. A whole child, stepchild, or adopted by love is all the same in her eyes. If you asked anyone under 55 in here how do you, know Louise they will most likely tell you she is my adopted mom. She had a heart of gold and even a bigger heart to love. As her children became teenagers it seems all the children in the neighborhood and their friends drifted to mom, any night of the week she would come home to kids sleeping everywhere, rooting them out of her bed when she came home after a long night at work. Today they all still love her as a mom. As she drifted to other jobs her children seem to grow and when she finally got back into bus driving, her children on the bus became her kids. If a child was getting picked on, she would fight for the child just loving on the child when sometimes they had no one else to turn to. She was their Angel, now the Lord has another with him. 1000’s of children no matter how old we get will always call her Mommawees or Granny she will truly be missed.
Louise loved to listen to gospel music like the Tripps and Guthers. She drove for Colonial Trailways for many years. She loved meeting the people and listening to their stories on the long trips, she would talk with them, and when it was over they all felt like she was family to them. However, her love was driving for Mobile Public Schools. Always there to take the children to different schools throughout the day or to help other drivers out. She didn’t want to retire and leave all her babies.
She fought a long hard illness but no matter how much the heart didn't work her love grew even more. Just remember her with the love she given you she gave all she had to give while on earth but her love will live on. No matter where she went people would run up to her and hug her and she would look up at Tina and say that by the way this is one of your adopted sister or brother smiling so big. She was loved as much as she loved.
Louise was a wonderful friend. A mother figure to many in her life. She cared about people, always ready to help, at all times of the day or night. A very giving person, but most of all you could feel her love and concern. If Louise was in your life, you was a blessed person. It's not what we have in our lives that make us blessed it's Who we have in our lives.
A visitation for Louise will be held Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at Radney Funeral Home, 1200 Industrial Pkwy, Saraland, Alabama 36571. A funeral service will occur Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Creola Cemetery, Creola, Alabama.
Serving as pallbearers are Thomas Harris, Jonathan Everett, Mikey Hudgins, Nathan Jenkins, Matt Purcell, and Justin Forbes.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.RadneyFuneralHome-Saraland.com for the Everett family.
