Vinnie Hawkins

HAWKINS, Mrs. Vinnie - Age 95, passed away Friday, August 25, 2006 at Genesys Health Park. Funeral service 11AM Wednesday August 30, 2006 at New Zion Baptist Church, 1601 Chippewa St. Rev. Ronald Thompson officiating. Dr. W.G. Terry, Host Pastor. Interment Mt. Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Greenville, Alabama. Friends and pallbearers will assemble at the church 11AM Wednesday. Mrs. Hawkins will lie in state in the Chapel of Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home, there will be no public viewing. Final funeral arrangements will be handled by Hudson Funeral Home, 620 W. Commerce St., Greenville, AL (334) 382-3202. Vinnie B. Hawkins was the fourth child born to the union of William and Sammie Bennett in Greenville, Alabama on December 22, 1910. As children, she and her thirteen siblings were reared in a Christian environment and in her early childhood, she was baptized at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville. Mrs. Hawkins was very active in service to the Lord all of her life; she was a prayer warrior, loved to hear a good sermon and had a passion for Mission Work. Mrs. Hawkins attended school in Greenville, Alabama. In 1932, she was joined in marriage to Roman "Jake" Hawkins and they had three sons born to them in Greenville. She moved with her husband, a journeyman cement finisher and plasterer, and their three sons to Birmingham, Alabama in 1937, where they had five more sons. She joined Sardis Baptist Church in Birmingham where she remained actively involved in the Christian faith. Mrs. Hawkins supervised a young boys Christian group known as the "Crusaders". She recruited the young Crusaders from house to house in her community, instilled Christian principles in them and inspired them to perform good deeds in the community. She was also a faithful, active member of the "Eastern Star Society". In 1964, she moved to Flint, Michigan with her husband and family where she worked at Genesee Memorial Hospital. While living in Flint, she joined New Zion Baptist Church and was regular in church attendance, prayer meeting and Bible Study. After she and her husband retired, they bought a home in Greenville and moved back to Alabama. Mrs. Hawkins loved to work with her hands, cooking, cleaning, planting flowers, gardening and homemaking in general. Mrs. Hawkins leaves to cherish 5 sons, Cephus (Allenne) Hawkins, of Grand Blanc, Michigan, Charles (Betty) Hawkins of Hazel Crest, Illinois, Louis A. Hawkins of Grand Blanc, Michigan, Ronald (Gloria) Hawkins of Oak Park, Michigan and Jacob (Remonia) Hawkins of Flint, Michigan; 26 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; 2 sisters, Doris Harris and Mattie Frost; 3 brothers, Fred, Lambert and Robert Sr.; 4 sisters-in-law, Yates, Dorothy, Rena Van and Ceola; a host of nieces, nephews and friends. Mrs. Hawkins was preceded in death by her parents, William and Sammie Bennett; husband, Jake and 3 of their sons, Theodore, William and Benjamin; 3 brothers, Paul, William and Lewis Anthony and 5 sisters, Beatrice, Inez, Verla, Ella Fair and Dorothy.

Vinnie Hawkins

December 22, 1910 - August 25, 2006