Alma Moreno McClurkin was born on July 5, 1927, to Alma Erline James and James Edgar Moreno. She passed away on Thursday, May 4, 2017. She is preceded in death by her husband, David Earl McClurkin.
She grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, and told stories of walking to First Baptist Church attending Sunday school, and walking with friends to school at Bellinger Hill, Baldwin, and Dear Lanier. She attended Florida State College for Women (FSU) for a year and then returned to Montgomery to take care of her “Old Mama” and to graduate from Huntingdon College with degrees in French, Spanish, and English.
She returned to “Dear Lanier” to teach French and Spanish and sponsor Future Teachers of America, French, and Spanish clubs. Her claim to fame was always that she taught Bart Starr and his wife, Cherry at “Dear Lanier”.
She was active in the Methodist Junior Fellowship programs (MJF), Dr. Fisher’s Leper colony mission in Thailand through a church in Union Springs, teaching Sunday school, making vestments for the church, arranging flowers for the church, and directing children’s ministry programs, all while fulfilling the Lord’s call to serve and setting examples for her children.
She valued education so much that she began to work on a minor in Latin and a Master’s in Library Science and Media at Auburn University. She then returned to Floyd Junior High as a Latin, English, and Spanish teacher and Librarian. She taught for over twenty years and loved her spirited students.
She is survived by her children, Martha McClurkin Myers (Ronald L.), Earline Smith (Frank M.), and Mary Alma Neeley (Forrest); her grandchildren, John David Myers, Ronald Matthew Myers, Caroline O’Neil, Debbie Myers, Matt Smith, Tyler Casey, Adam Smith, Carrie Neeley Eberly, and Collier Neeley; and four great-grandchildren.
A visitation will be held on Sunday, May 7, 2017, from 1:00-2:00 PM with a Chapel service beginning at 2:00 PM at Leak Memory Chapel. Burial will follow in Greenwood Cemetery.
Pallbearers include John David Myers, Ronald Matthew Myers, Matt Smith, Adam Smith, Ethan Wade, and Collier Neeley.
Honorary pallbearers include Davie McClukin, Kirk McClurkin, Rob Peacock, Jeff Barker, Ronald L. Myers, Frank Smith, and J. Forrest Neeley.
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