Ruth LaVerne Creel

Ruth LaVerne Creel, 82 of Moundville, passed away April 9, 2025 at Hospice of West Alabama. A graveside service will be held on Monday, April 14, 2025 at 1:00 pm at Kinard Cemetery in West Blocton with Bro. Rick Mitchell officiating and Magnolia Chapel South directing. Visitation will be held at Magnolia Chapel South from 9:00 am to 11:00 am on Monday prior to the graveside service.

She is preceded in death by her husband Roy Creel, parents; Marvin and Ora Lee Foster, sister; Dora Ann Foster Oglesby, and her step daughter; Marcia Creel Clinner.

Survivors include her sisters; Judy Foster Darnell (Fred), Connie Foster, grandchildren; Michael Creel (Lauren), Morgan Creel Boyd (Landon), Matthew Weaver, and Cameron Clinner, 8 great grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Michael Creel, Landon Boyd, Bryant Holmes, Derek Yeager, Chris Stewart, Chandler Holmes, and Patrick Maxwell. Honorary pallbearers will be Matthew Weaver and Cameron Clinner.

LaVerne Foster Creel was born September 25, 1942 in West Blocton, Alabama to Ora Lee (Morse) and Marvin Foster, the second of four daughters. She graduated from West Blocton High School. After studying business and finance, she began her career in Birmingham, Alabama. She later relocated to Tuscaloosa and pursued a career primarily in mortgage lending, with financial institutions including First Mortgage Company, Real Estate Financing, and Regions Mortgage. She retired from Regions Bank in 2007 after a successful career as a loan originator.

The primary reason for her move to Tuscaloosa came in 1974, when she met and married the love of her life, Roy Creel. They were happily married for almost 48 years until his death in 2022.

While she was successful in her professional life and a loving daughter, wife, sister and aunt, she found her greatest joy in being Nana to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She could be counted on for wisdom, advice, support and unconditional love. She always saw the best in all those she loved, encouraging them to reach their full potential. LaVerne Creel was a woman of great faith in God, demonstrated by the way she served and loved others.

In lieu of flowers the family request donations to the Michael J. Fox foundation for Parkinson's Research.