September 2, 1934 ~ September 11, 2025 (age 91)
Mary Joan Hadaway Hamil, 91, of Valley, Alabama, passed away on Thursday, September 11, 2025.
Mary was born on September 2, 1934, to Gus and Mary Lois Hadaway. Later she married James Ralph Hamil on April 10, 1956.
Survivors include, her daughter, Ellie McKeehan (Buford); grandchildren, Glenn and Jason Short; great-grandchildren, Christopher Short, Danielle Short, Jenna Short, and Jared Abney; four great-great grandchildren.
Mary is preceded on death by, her husband, Ralph Hamil; son, Jerry Hamil; parents, Gus and Mary Lois Hadaway; brothers, Warren, Bryant, and Rance; mother-in- law, Elsie Hamil; father-in-law, Herman Hamil; sister-in-laws and brother-in-laws, Raye and Rudolph Hill, Faye and Tom Gauntt.
Mary was a member of West End Baptist Church in Valley, Alabama. She accepted Christ as her Savior as a teenager and was active in church as long as she was able. Her wish was to get well enough to go back to church.
She babysat almost all of her nieces and nephews when they were young and babysat her grandchildren and great-grandchildren while their parents worked. She expressed the desire to babysit her great-great-grandchildren, if she were able.
Her hobbies included, reading, sewing, and crocheting. For a few years she crocheted Barbie clothes for the young girls in the family. She taught herself to sew and made most of her daughter’s clothes.
Mary lived on Red Dirt Hill in the Langdale community of Valley, Alabama, for her entire life and left when her health started getting bad. She then went to live with her daughter, in Beulah, Alabama.
Funeral service for Mary will be held, 2:30 P.M. (EST), Tuesday, September 16, 2025, in the Chapel of Johnson-Brown Service Funeral Home with Pastor Noah McGuire officiating.
Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service from 1:30 P.M. until 2:30 P.M. (EST).
Interment will be private.
Please visit Mary’s Memorial Tribute page at www.johnsonbrownservicefh.com to leave a kind word for her family, to share a memory of Mary, or to light a Remembrance Candle in her memory.
Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home of Valley directing.
