Avie Heard
Posted: June 7, 2019
CALEDONIA — Avie Lou Heard, 82, died June 6, 2019, at her residence. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Otts Funeral Home Chapel in Sulligent, Alabama, with Don Taggart, Harvey Coplin and Randy Kennedy officiating. Burial will follow at Northington/Heard Cemetery. Visitation is from 6-8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Otts Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Heard was born April 13, 1937, in Lamar County, to the late Charlie Otts and Lucile Williams Otts. She attended Sulligent School and was a member of Depriest Chapel Freewill Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister, Kathleen Lee. She is survived by her husband, James B. “J.B.” Heard of Caledonia; daughters, Jeanine Browning and Lisa Stockman, both of Caledonia; brothers, Earlie Otts of Vernon and Jerry Otts of Sulligent; sisters, Emma Jane Jackson and Mildred Lowery, both of Sulligent and Hilda Nolen of Hamilton; five grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.