Deborah Auld Collier

Deborah Auld Collier, age 60, resident of Grand Bay, AL, passed away in the early morning hours of December 3rd,2016. Debbie was born in McIntosh County on Georgia's east coast on December 14,1955. In 1973 she graduated from McIntosh County Academy and her family moved to Bayou La Batre, Alabama, where her father hoped to build a better future. This is where she met Gary Collier and they fell in love and were married on June 9th,1976. Together they had 5 children, 12 grandchildren, and 2 great-grandchildren. Debbie loved to "ride around the beach" along Bayou La Batre and Coden's bayou, then along the sea wall. Something she learned to love in the early years of moving to Alabama was riding the sea walls, hoping to see the right boat in the channel. She would ride for hours, often stopping to collect sea shells or a plant she thought was beautiful. Debbie was also a plant activist; she loved to rescue plants, care for them, and nurse them back to health, transforming something brown and bare into something bright and vibrant. Most of all Debbie loved being with her children and grandchildren. She loved big family dinners, when her family ate, laughed, and traded stories about their daily life's journey. It was because of her warm heart, sense of humor, and open personality that she had many "adopted" children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, sisters, and brother. Her loss will be felt deeply. Debbie is preceded in death by her father, Richard Auld, sister, Ruby Auld, and love of her life, Gary Collier. She is survived by her 5 children Trina(Chester) Sprinkle, Bonnie(Glenn) McCollough, D Lynn(Jen) Collier, Margaret(Keith) Roberson, and Gerald(Tara) Fowler, her grandchildren, Tiffani, Lil Chester, Melissa, Nicholas, Chad Ryan, Austin Ray, Hannah, Ely, Lil Keith, Landyn, Lil Gerald, and Brittnee, two great-grandchildren, Rose and Brently, her mother, Bea Auld(old woman), sisters, Geraldine(Curt) Golemon, Juanita Rice(Chris), brother, Bubba(Deb) Auld and many nieces, nephews, and "adopted babies." Services will be held at Serenity Funeral Home Monday, December 12th,2016 at 2pm with visitation for family starting at 11am and friends at 12pm until 2pm service time.

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Deborah Auld Collier

December 12, 1956 - December 12, 2016