Madelene Vandiver Stanley Long
d. October 8, 2008
Date Died: October 08, 2008
Decatur: Madelene Vandiver Stanley Long, 93, went to be with our Lord on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 in Decatur.
Funeral service is 2 p.m. on Friday, October 10th at the Coker-Hawkins Funeral Home Chapel with the Reverend Kenneth Roberts officiating. Burial will be in Oaklawn Cemetery following the service. Family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday at the Coker-Hawkins Funeral Home.
Pallbearers will be Mark Corsbie, Jeff Love, Chase Gilbert, Marcus Baker, Justin Archuleta, Jeremy Archuleta, Chris Corsbie and Cesar Calderon.
Madelene was born September 24, 1915 in Colbert County, Alabama to Walter Vandiver and Sara Ann Rickman. She married Wallace Stanley on September 3, 1939 in Alabama and was married 28 years at this death. She later married Coleman Long in 1970 in Decatur and was married 20 years at his death in February 1990. Madelene was a dorm mother at the Denton State School for over 20 years.
Left behind to cherish her memory are her daughters, Carolyn Roberts and husband Corky of Decatur, Betty Wallace of Decatur; sons, Roy Stanley and wife, Tammy of Bowie, John Stanley and wife, Sylvia of Georgia, Rickey Stanley and wife, Linda of Fort Worth; sisters, Marie Woodly of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Amzona Mason of Zepherhills, Florida, Hazel McCollum of Moulton, Alabama; brothers, Earnest Vandiver of La Grange, Alabama, J. D. Vandiver of Lakeland, Florida; 21 grandchildren, 49 great grandchildren and 6 great, great grandchildren.
Madelene is preceded in death by her husbands, Wallace Stanley and Coleman Long; daughters, Billie Ruth Stanley, Patricia Gayle Love and Martha Sue Broedling; granddaughters, Angela Corsbie and Amy Tuggle; and grandson, Dane Broedling.
Coker-Hawkins Funeral Home 940/627-5959