EVA MOYER GAMBLE

Eva Moyer Gamble, age ninety-four (94), of Concord, Alabama, passed away at home on June 29 with absolute confidence in her eternal destiny. The visitation will be Wednesday, July 2, 2014, from 1:00 PM until 2:00 PM at Peoples Chapel Funeral Home. The funeral service will be at 2:00 PM at the Funeral Home, with Reverend Matt McGukin officiating. Interment will follow at Highland Memorial Gardens. The pallbearers will be David Gamble, Andrew Gamble, Jonathan Gamble, Dwain Murphree, Alfred “Bo” Smith and Todd Utz. Mrs. Gamble was born on September 27, 1919, of David and Ruth Moyer in their Hueytown home where her father served as Justice of the Peace. She was baptized eighty-one years ago in a spring-fed baptismal pool across from Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church where she was a member until transferring her membership to Concord Baptist as a newlywed in 1937. After graduating from Hueytown High School, Mrs. Gamble married her high school sweetheart, Billy M. Gamble, to whom she was married for sixty years prior to his predeceasing her in 1995. Preceding Mrs. Gamble in death were her siblings, Joseph R. Moyer (Florence deceased) and Agnes Moyer Dabbs (Gurley deceased). She is survived by two sons, Robert “Bobby” L. Gamble (Frances deceased) of Hoover, Charles W. Gamble (Gail) of Tuscaloosa; three grandchildren: Laurie Jane Smith (Bo) of Birmingham, David W. Gamble of Hoover, Marnie G. Utz (Todd) of Birmingham; five great-grandchildren: Rebecca Jill Smith (Hoover), Meagan Elizabeth Gamble (Tuscaloosa), Andrew Dylan Gamble (Tuscaloosa), Jonathan Mason Gamble (Tuscaloosa) and Ruby Zawadi Utz (Birmingham). Additionally, Mrs. Gamble is survived by nieces and nephews who thoughtfully encouraged her through their calls, notes and visits; especially sustaining were the weekly visits of Tommie Lou Ganus. Both the length and quality of Mrs. Gamble’s life were impacted positively by the loving care and extraordinary service of her longtime, live-in caregiver, Amalia Chacon, to whom the surviving family is forever indebted. Additionally, because it takes a neighborhood to sustain the elderly, the family expresses special thanks to Tim Kornegay, Norman Smith, Dwain and Sue Murphree, John and Doris Farr, Comfort Care Hospice, Rockcreek Pharmacy, Dr. Harini Ganga and many other friends and neighbors who were part of Mrs. Gamble’s extended care giving network and who assisted in removing the pain and anxiety from Mrs. Gamble’s home going. External to her family, the center of Mrs. Gamble’s life was the Concord Baptist Church where she was a sixty-year Sunday School teacher, president of the Women’s Missionary Union, church officer, and yearly leader in vacation Bible school. Over the decades of her widowhood, the congregation never ceased to minister to her. Many of those assisting her she has outlived. Among those surviving, special mention is made of Jane Payne, Bobby Quick, Hazel Norris, Barbara Felder, Myrtis Mills, Dot Brown, David and Brenda Hickey and Glenda Barnes. One of the greatest blessings in Mrs. Gamble’s life was to be pastored by a lifetime of effective and dedicated gospel ministers the last of whom was Reverend Matt McGukin.

EVA MOYER GAMBLE

September 27, 1919 - June 29, 2014