Clara Mae Meadows

With deepest regret, we announce the passing from this life, of Mrs. Clara Mae Meadows, 90, a long time resident of 25058 Highway 22 East, Wadley, Alabama 36276, and current resident of Traylor Retirement Community, 1235 Yancey Street, Roanoke, Alabama 36274.

Mrs. Meadows transitioned from this life on Thursday, September 8, 2016 at Traylor Nursing facility in Roanoke, Alabama.

Mrs. Meadows will be available for viewing on Monday, September 12, 2016, from 1:00 PM until 6:00 PM.

Funeral Services will be Tuesday, September 13, 2016, at 11:00 AM from the Cogar Hill C.M.E.Church in Daviston, Alabama, Reverend Sylvester Hicks, Pastor. Reverend Tom Staples, Jr. will serve as Eulogist. Also sharing the roster will be Bishop Lodis McGregor and Minister Winston Pearson.

Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery at Cogar Hill C.M.E. Church.
Sister Clara Mae Wood was born March 11, 1926 to the parentage of the late Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jack Wood and Lola Bell (Staples) Wood in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. She was one of two children born to this parentage. Clara Mae did not get to know her mother, Lola Bell, very well, because her life ended when Clara was around nine years of age.

She grew up in the Wadley-Daviston community. At a early age, she joined the Cogar Hill C.M.E. Church, where she remained a faithful and devoted member throughout her life. She often served as an Usher in the church.

Clara united in marriage with Mr. Brady Meadows and their union was blessed by the birth of five children, three girls and two boys. Clara was preceded in death by her husband, Brady; a daughter, Dorothy Meadows Gates, and a son, Troy Meadows.

Clara held employment for 18 years, at Plantation Patterns in Wadley. Later, she worked at both Rosser's Nursing Home and Traylor's Nursing home in Roanoke. Around 2003, she retired from public work, and shortly after went to live at the Traylor Retirement Center in Roanoke.

Blessed to endure for more than 90 years, Clara entered into rest on Thursday morning, September 8, 2016 at the Traylor Retirement Center in Roanoke, Alabama. Although the family did everything they could do to relieve her pain and keep her here with them, it was God's will that she should go home and be with the Lord.

Her cherished legacy is carried on by her remaining children: daughters, Louise Treadwell and Sandra Meadows of Roanoke, Alabama; and devoted son, Andrew Meadows (Gwen) of Wadley, Alabama; one sister, Mildred Ellis of Cleveland, Ohio; a close family friend, Lois Weaver; eleven (11) grandchildren, thirty-two (32) great grandchildren and four (4) great-great grandchildren; a host of young people in the community whom she "mothered" and many other loving relatives and friends.

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