Eunice Lois Black

Published 12:00 am Friday, November 10, 2000

Eunice Lois Black, 95, of Mobile, formerly of Brundidge, died at a Mobile nursing home on Nov. 8, 2000.

Services will be at 11 a.m., Friday, Nov. 10, 2000 at Radney Funeral Home in Mobile. Visitation will be 10-11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Graveside services will be at 1 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 11 at Brundidge City Cemetery.

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Miss Black was born Sept. 1, 1905 in Brundidge to Jehu and Harriett Eliza Greene Black. She attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery and Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn. She received a masters degree in education from Peabody and also studied art. She taught 46 years and retired in 1973 from Chilton County High School in Clanton, where she had taught since 1941, having previously taught in Prattville. She participated with student activities and, at one time, coached a girls basketball team.

While living in Clanton, she was an active member of First Baptist Church. She moved to Mobile in September 1987, where she was a faithful member of First Baptist Church and the Mary martha Sunday school class.

She was preceded in death by a sister, Julia Ann Black Lott and six brothers: William H. Black, Jesse G. Black, James I Black, Simpson J. Black, C. Spurgeon Black and Robert E. Black.

Survivors include three nieces, Janie Black (Porter) Roberts of Mobile, Marcia Black Beckham of Jacksonville, Fla. and Grace Black (Bill) Christian of Birmingham; four nephews: William H. Black Jr. of Mobile, James I. (Juanita) Black of Lakeland, Fla., William E. (Claire) Black of Houston, Texas and Charles R. (Vivian) Black of Van Vleck of Texas; cousins: Mary Lou Greene (W. Richard) Easterling of Dothan, James R. Greene of Clanton, Barbara Greene Petrey of Clanton, James Greene of Petrey and R. William Greene of Andalusia.

Memorial contributions may be made to First Baptist Church of Mobile.