Doris Rose Boutwell

February 27, 2022

Mrs. Doris Rose Boutwell, age 97, passed away Friday, February 25, 2022 in Pensacola, FL. She has resided in Flomaton, AL; most of her life. She was a member of Gospel Light Temple Church.

To know Doris was to love her. She embodied life to the fullest and remained independent to the very end. She loved her Lord, church and family unconditionally.

Doris was a wonderful mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, cousin, niece, aunt and friend. A social butterfly, never meeting a stranger. Her passion for quilting, gardening, canning, cooking, and that famous delicious divinity candy were generously shared to all that knew her.

Doris was a hard worker and loved her job. She remained a loyal, dependable employee until the company closed and reluctantly retired in her late 70’s.

She often spoke fondly of her parents. One of her most favorite memories as a child was picking cotton along side her father. “She was a daddy’s girl”, she’d proudly say. She loved to make tomato gravy and biscuits, word cross puzzles, and good company.

Doris was humble, kind, meek, generous, forgiving, loving, patient, strong-willed, stubborn, tough as nails, independent, one of a kind “Beautiful Soul”.

Mrs. Boutwell is preceded in death by her parents, Archie Franklin McCurdy and Mamie Catherine Settles McCurdy, one son, Carlton Cook, one daughter, Angel Rose Maddox, two grandsons, John Wayne Hays Jr; Kenneth Sewell, one great -great grandson, Mason Ryals, six sisters, Mildred Johnson, Iona Busbee, Wilda Williams, Grace McCullough, Nita Pace, Hazel Coffee, and one brother, Everette McCurdy.

She is survived by her one daughter, Mary (John Wayne) Hays, of Coushatta, LA; daughter-in law, Marion Cook, of Cantonment, FL; seven grandchildren, twenty-two great grandchildren, twenty- three great-great grandchildren, other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be held Monday, February 28, 2022 at Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home LLC at 2:00 PM with Rev. Marion Williams officiating.

Burial will follow at MT. Carmel Cemetery.

Visitation will be held Monday, February 28, 2022 from 1:00 PM until service time at 2:00 PM at Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home LLC.

Pallbearers will be Daniel Cook, Matthew Avirett, Justin Barlow, Darren Barlow, Darrell Wheeler, and Brian Avirett.

Honorary pallbearers will be John Wayne Hays, Sr; Nolan Webb, all nephews, and Joe Petty.

In lieu of flowers, family request that donations can be made to John Wayne Hays Jr. Bible Fund Hickory Grove Baptist Church 1911 Sigler St. Coushatta, LA. 71019.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under Obituaries