Sandra Jean (LaRoda) Stewart

Ms. Sandra Stewart, age 63, a former resident of Dothan, Alabama passed away Tuesday, April 27, 2021.

Drive through visitation will be Friday, May 14, 2021 from 4 PM to 6 PM at the funeral home.

Funeral service will be held on Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 10 AM at First Holiness Church, 902 Webb Road, Dothan, Alabama 36303.

Burial will immediately follow the service at Glories Temple Cemetery in Columbia, Alabama.

Sandra “Sandy” J. LaRoda-Stewart was born on October 4, 1957 in Philadelphia, PA to the late Edward and Connie LaRoda.

Sandy received her GED from Wallace Community College and she also attended college here as well. Although she didn’t complete her studies there she was, as well as her family, very proud of her accomplishments she had obtained. Sandy worked several jobs but her final career was rewarding and fulfilling. She worked over fifteen years at a local assisted living facility where she cooked and assisted the elderly with their daily activities. Sandy was an avid reader and writer. She created several unpublished short stories, which she was very proud of. She also was a seamstress and had a huge love of arts and crafts. Most of all her love of foliage. Sandy’s green thumb touch many she knew.

Sister Sandy was baptized in Jesus name and received the gift of the Holy Ghost under the late Bishop J. H. Smalls. She loved the Lord and worked tirelessly within the church. Sandy was a fill in Sunday School teacher and usher. She worked tirelessly with the blanket drive for over 350 children with cancer at the Children Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.

Sandy was also involved with youth department, plant drive, Habitat for Humanity “Women’s Build”, Reupholstering the church furniture, preparing food for prayer breakfast and she was second place winner for walking through the Bible for the Winter at Outreach Prayer Mission Pentecostal Church under Pastor Mary Lawrence.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her eldest two brothers: Edward and David Alexander LaRoda; also her eldest sister: Shirley M. LaRoda.

She leaves behind a devoted and lovingly daughter: Alexander J. LaRoda; her grandchildren: Jazmine (Jeremy) LaRoda-Covington, Janail Debose, Dominique Debose and Iysis Debose; great grandchildren: Tyreese and Maci Covington, Zi’Youn, Na’Riah and Kamoria Stewart; one sister: Diana LaRoda-Goodman; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends; a special mention; although they divorced sometimes ago they maintained a loving friendship: James Stewart and also not only her niece  and sister in the Lord but I believe her best friend: Diana D. LaRoda “her road buddy”.  

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