Wilma R Junkin

Wilma Ruth Lancaster Junkin, 88, peacefully passed into the loving arms of her Savior at home on July 20, 2021, surrounded by her precious family. Funeral services will be Sunday, July 25, 2021 at 2:30pm from Tuscaloosa Primitive Baptist Church ,5102 University Blvd E., in Cottondale with Elder Craig Blair and Bro. Joel Cornett officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to service at the Church. Interment services will immediately follow from Memory Hill Gardens, Garden of the Cross, on Skyland Blvd in Tuscaloosa. Memory Chapel, a Dignity Memorial Provider, is honored to be entrusted with final arrangements.

The matriarch of our family, she passed down her great wisdom and example of unconditional love to five generations. We are so thankful for the strong foundation of faith, family and love that she built around us, her special sense of humor, and her amazing strength after having been widowed since 1994. Oh how we loved her stories of her growing up on the farm in Pickens Co. with three wonderful brothers. She was the baby and only girl (Spoiled, probably). She had a feisty spirit and great love for life and nature. She was very stoic and extremely independent, with beauty inside and out. Some of her favorite things to do included reading her Bible, doing crossword puzzles, adult coloring books, and watching America’s Funniest Videos and Dr. Pol on TV. She loved sitting outdoors observing the beauty of Gods creation, especially admiring the flowers and birds. Always a hard worker, her work history includes: Westinghouse as a plant worker, DCH Surgery as instrument sterilization technician, Partlow Hospital as patient care assistant and Bryce Hospital Police Dept. where she was radio dispatcher. She was also a proud graduate of the West Alabama Police Academy, having earned honors and awards in marksmanship. She will be missed tremendously but we are comforted knowing she is now eternally at peace, happy, healthy, and wrapped in the loving arms of her Lord and Savior in Heaven. She is now finally reunited with the love of her life and they are joyously “Dancing in the Wind!”

Mama, Mawmaw, Grangran, Ruth: We are secure and looking forward to being with you again one day. We love you to Heaven!

Ms Junkin was preceded in death by her loving husband of 44 yrs James H. Junkin, parents David J. and Minnie Bell Lancaster, brothers D.J.(Junior), Dan and Doug Lancaster, and great grandson Nicholas Reed Hubbard.

She is survived by son Mike Junkin (Susan), daughter Judy Junkin, grandson Kyle Junkin (Kayla),

granddaughters April Hubbard (Shane), Amber Dunkling (Kyle), Katrina Whisenhunt (Dan), Beverly Stewart, Ashley Marques (Chris), and Laney Junkin (Brennan), 8 great-grandchildren, 3 great-great grandchildren, and a host of nieces and nephews and extended family.

Serving as Active Pallbearers will be: Shane Hubbard, Kyle Dunkling, Lucas Hubbard, Kyle Junkin, Ricky Lancaster, and David Crawford. The family wishes to recognize: Mary Lancaster, Bonnie Moore, Clarence and Jeanette Junkin, Mildred Junkin, Roy Swartz, Francis Blount, Susan Hallman, Tiffany McPherson, Richard Myrick, Patti and Ken Guthrie, Brian Williams, Brothers and Sisters of Tuscaloosa Primitive Baptist Church, the Doctors and Staff of Hospice of West Alabama, Dr. Brian Wilhite and Dr. Anne Lewis as Honorary Pallbearers. Along with special thank yous and love to RN’s Paula Church and Curtis Williams, PCA’s Sandra Strickland and Angela Griffin.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to Hospice of West Alabama in Ms. Junkin's honor.

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