Ms. Minnie A. Veal Obituaries

Ms. Minnie Agnes Williams Veal, “Mother Minnie”, 88, of Five Points, died Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at Roanoke Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, Roanoke. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 7259 County Road 267, Lanett, AL, at 1:00 p.m. (EST), with Rev. William Jerome Trammell officiating. Interment will be in the Rehope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, 6267 County Road 258, LaFayette, AL. The remains will lie in state at New Hope Church from noon (EST) until the funeral hour.

Public viewing will be at Vines Funeral Home Chapel on Monday, March 10, 2025, from 3:00 p.m. (EST) to 7:00 p.m. (EST). Mother Minnie was born on June 24, 1936, to the parentage of the late Roosevelt Williams Sr. and Minnie Perry Williams in Evansville, GA (Troup County), Georgia. She was the tenth of ten children.

After her family migrated to the Chambers County area, she confessed to Christ at an early age and joined the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Lanett, AL. Mother Minnie attended Unity Model School in Five Points, Alabama. She was also a graduate of the Class of 1955 from Randolph County Training School in Roanoke, AL, where she was a star basketball player. Mother Minnie was a seamstress and domestic chef by trade. She enjoyed sewing quilts, cooking, and being a caretaker for her family and others. In Mother Minnie’s spare time she enjoyed watching sports, Young & the Restless, and The Price is Right on television. She was a huge Lakers fan. Minnie believed in helping people and supporting her community through her church, the Alabama New South Coalition, the NAACP, and the Randolph County Training School Alumni Chapter.

Mother Minnie was preceded in death by both parents, Roosevelt Williams Sr. and Minnie Perry Williams, two sons, Roger Williams Sr. and Gerald Shorod Williams, eight brothers and sisters: Dot, Mattie, Jessie, Lexie, George, Mary, Ada, Roosevelt Jr., and a former husband, Mr. Willie Veal. She is survived by her four loving daughters, Cynthia (George) Wilder, Selita (L.C.) Allen, of Five Points, AL; Jacqueline Veal (Darrell) of Roanoke AL, and Robin (Jay) Cheeks of Franklin GA. Affectionately known as “Granny” she leaves to cherish her memories seven grandchildren: LaTessia Wilder, Roger Williams Jr., Ashley Williams, LaShae Veal, Ebony Pitts, D’Shon Pitts, and Jai’Nae Agnes Cheeks, six-great grandchildren: Chadwick Williams, Victorya Weatherspoon, Isaiah Williams, Ariya Williams, Zaiden Brooks, Zhuri Pitts. She leaves to cherish one beloved sister, Annie B. Davis of Cleveland, Ohio, and one daughter-in-Law, Donna Williams of LaGrange, GA. One special nephew and one special niece that she raised as her own, Lamar Pyant and Dianne Phillips, both of Roanoke, AL. A dear friend/classmate, Mrs. Annette Oliver of Welch, AL, and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives, and friends.