Catherine Twymon
January 2, 1924 - January 23, 2022
OUR MOTHER, MRS. CATHERINE TWYMON, WAS BORN TO THE UNION OF THE LATE ERNEST AND MAYBELLE TWYMON. ALTHOUGH HER BIRTH CERTIFICATE STATES JANUARY 2, 1924, THERE IS HOWEVER SOME QUESTION TO THE ACCURACY OF THE YEAR. ACCORDING TO MOTHER, SHE WAS BORN TWO YEARS PRIOR. SHE ALWAYS SAID SHE WOULD MAKE ONE HUNDRED, SO WE WILL GIVE HER THAT TODAY. IN MOTHERS EARLY LIFE SHE RECEIVED CHRIST AND UNITED WITH AFRICA BAPTIST CHURCH IN WINTERBORO, ALABAMA SERVING FAITHFULLLY UNTIL RELOCATING TO TALLADEGA. AT THIS TIME, SHE JOINED JACOBS CHAPEL CME METHODIST CHURCH UNTIL NEARLY FORTY PLUS YEARS AGO A YOUNG MINISTER MOVED ACROSS THE STREET FROM HER AND SHE BEGAN CARING FOR HIS CHILDREN. IT WAS AT THIS TIME MOTHER CATHERINE FOUND HER FINAL CHURCH HOME, HER BELOVED MT. CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH, WHERE TO THIS DATE SHE REMAINS THE OLDEST MOTHER OF THE CHURCH. AFTER BEING BLESSED WITH 98 PLUS GRATEFUL YEARS AND LIVING TO SEE FIVE GENERATIONS, MOTHER CATHERINE FOUND SWEET PEACE ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 23RD AT 8:22 AM WHILE UNDER THE CARE OF TALLADEGA HEALTH AND REHAB. AS JESUS CAME AND TOOK HER HAND TO LIVE WITH HIM FOREVER, MOTHER CATHERINE BOARDED THE TRAIN TO GLORY JOINING HER PARENTS ERNEST AND MAYBELLE TWYMON, HER INFANT DAUGHTER MARY JO, HER ELDEST SON WALTER, AKA "BO PETE," HIS WIFE EVELYN AND THEIR SON DARRYL, HER SON-IN-LAW BEN, HER SEVEN BROTHERS, MILTON, OLIVER, LEWIS, JT, WILLIE "BOO", ERNEST JR. "JUNE BUG"AND GEORGE, HER TWO SISTERS EVELYN AND ELIZABETH, AFFECTIONALY KNOWN AS SISTER, HER TWO BELOVED GRANDSONS MICHEAL AND JADYN AND HER PRECIOUS GREAT- GREAT GRANDAUGHTER RYDER BLEU. MOTHER CATHERINE LEAVES BEHIND TO CHERISH HER LOVE AND MEMORIES: HER SONS, MELVIN (MARILYN), JEROME (LINDA) AND HER CHOSEN SON, HUGH (ANDREA); DAUGHTERS, MAUDE, ELAINE (DAVID) AND MABLE; HER LOVING GRANDCHILDREN, GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT-GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; AND HOST OF NEICES, NEPHEWS, OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS FAR TOO MANY TO NAME. SHE LOVED US ALL. WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK HER DOCTOR AND NEIGHBOR DR. JIMMY DAVIS, DR. ANN DAVIS, THE STAFF OF THE TALLADEGA NURSING HOME, HER GRANDDAUGHTERS APRIL AND TERRI, GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, NIA, AND ALL THAT CARED FOR HER IN HER FINAL DAYS.
OUR MOTHER, MRS. CATHERINE TWYMON, WAS BORN TO THE UNION OF THE LATE ERNEST AND MAYBELLE TWYMON. ALTHOUGH HER BIRTH CERTIFICATE STATES JANUARY 2, 1924, THERE IS HOWEVER SOME QUESTION TO THE ACCURACY OF THE YEAR. ACCORDING TO MOTHER, SHE WAS... View Obituary & Service Information