Mary Lou Colvin

Mary Lou Brown Colvin

Mary Lou Brown Colvin, age 93, died July 28th after a long decline with Alzheimer's. A long-time resident of Sandy Springs, GA, Mary Lou lived with her daughter, Celia, and son-in-law, Brant Beene, in Birmingham, Alabama, for the past five years. Born in Graves Station, Georgia, on May 31, 1923, to Susie Cheatham Chambless and Joseph Cecil Brown, Sr., she graduated from Dawson High School in 1940 and Andrew College two years later. In 1942 she found employment where her parents had met - at Ft Benning in Columbus, GA – and assisted the commanding general. Five years later she met a young officer named Walker Owens Colvin and they were married the next year. After the birth of two daughters, Cherrie and Celia, the family moved from Columbus to Atlanta. Mary Lou was hired as an executive assistant to former Georgia Governor, Carl Sanders, while he was still a young attorney. Later she joined Norton Company and retired after 26 years. Mary Lou was a member of Sandy Springs United Methodist Church for over 50 years. She especially enjoyed being part of "The Committee" where she and friends planned social events for their JOY Class Sunday school classmates. Mary Lou loved to travel and visited almost every state and every continent to experience new sights, customs, arts and food, always bringing back trinkets and treasures to share with her children and grandchildren. She outlived most of her friends, contemporaries and family members including her husband W.O. Colvin (deceased in 1971), and oldest daughter, Cherrie Hallen, who died in 2011. Her sister, Doris Case, of Cumming, GA, and brother, Joe Cecil Brown, Jr of Monroe, LA, are also deceased. Survivors include a daughter, Celia Beene (Brant), of Birmingham, AL, grandchildren Charley Beene(Katy), Billy Beene, and Libby Hudson (Miles), all of Birmingham; Bo Hallen, Jamie Hallen, Candace Hallen (Jordon Cook) of Atlanta; great grandchildren Kimbell and Emily Beene, Kimber Hallen, Hawkins Hudson and a sisters-in-law, Charline Hays Brown of Monroe, LA., and Lila Colvin Beazley of Augusta, GA.

Funeral services will be held at Beggs Funeral Home in Lincolnton, GA, Sunday, July 31, at 2 pm. Interment will follow in the family plot at New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery.

The family wants to acknowledge and thank Affinity Hospice for their kind care and to another very special caregiver, Vivian Morgan, of Birmingham.

Beggs Funeral Home, 200 May Ave., Lincolnton, GA is in charge of arrangements.