Obituary of Elaine Baldwin Woodham

Mrs. Elaine Baldwin Woodham, a resident of the Chalkhead Community, was welcomed in the arms of Jesus, Thursday March 14, 2024 at Flowers Hospital in Dothan. She was 76 years old. Funeral services for Mrs. Woodham will be 3:00 P.M. Saturday, March 16, 2024, from Chalkhead Baptist Church with Reverend Michael Woodham officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery, Holman Funeral Home directing. The family will receive friends in the church Saturday from 1:00 P.M. until service time. Mrs. Woodham was born August 4, 1947 in Dale County to the late Tommie Eston Baldwin and Fannie Pearl Walker Baldwin. Elaine attended school in Echo and graduated from Carroll High School. She was still close to many of her classmates. She enjoyed working the voting polls at Ewell. She was an active member of Chalkhead Baptist Church where she was the church organist for many years, a Vacation Bible School and Sunday School teacher and also served as the church secretary. Elaine loved to sew, use her embroidery machine and work in her rose beds. For years she kept Daniel and all his customers straight at Daniel’s Beauty Shop. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Daniel Paul Woodham; sister, Linda Harriet Baldwin; and brother, Tommy Baldwin. Elaine is survived by one daughter, Chellie Phillips (Jim) of Moreland, Georgia; one son, Paul Woodham (Carol) of Ozark; one grandchild, Brittany Alviz (Ericson); and one great grandchild, Lilly Alviz all of Los Angles, California; and sister-in-law, Twila Baldwin of Midland City. Numerous nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews and cousins also survive. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Chalkhead Baptist Church Children’s Ministry, 495 County Road 35, Ozark, Alabama 36360.