Annie Lee Rudolph Williams, was born in Castleberry, Alabama on February 12, 1930 to the late Andrew Lee
Rudolph and Annie Ewing Rudolph. She grew up in and around Castleberry and Belleville, small towns in Conecuh County, Alabama.
She attended Belleville Baptist Church where she was baptized under the pastoral leadership of Reverend James E. Noble and Reverend John Autrey. Where she returned for years to attend the Church Annual Revival. She moved to Mobile, Alabama in 1952 becoming a lifelong resident of Prichard, Alabama where she worked and raised her children. She attended St. Joseph Missionary Baptist Church in Prichard, Alabama for many years. She later joined the Church of God Pentecostal (Telegraph Road – Prichard, Alabama) under the pastoral leadership of the Late Bishop
E.D. Davis and Bishop George E. Moore for over forty years where she was known as Mother Annie.
Mother Annie served as President of Mother Board mentoring with integrity by precept and examples to the members of the Mother Board and others with her experience in cleaning, organizing and setting up for communion, baptism, other church programs and activities. She was an Usher, a member of the choir and actively attended Sunday School and Bible Study. She was currently a member of the Church of God That Jesus Built, Inc. where her Pastor Bishop George Moore and First Lady Anita Moore called her a faithful and dedicated member.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Andrew Lee Rudolph and Annie Ewing Rudolph; two sisters, Brunette Sanders and Daisy Lee McNeal; a son, Sylvester Williams; two grandsons: Clifford “Ray” Dilworth and Preston Ma“shawn” Dilworth; and the children of Jonas Rudolph (her siblings): Sanford, Bobie, Jonas, W.C., Enoch, Dennis, Kate, Rosa Anna, Callie, Ruby Mae, Pecda and Martha.
She departed this life at the blessed age of ninety at Saad Hospice Inpatient Facility, Mobile, Alabama on Thursday, December 3, 2020.
Madea leaves to cherish her memory her sister, Mary Bradley of Omaha, Nebraska; three sons: Matthew, Willie
(Valarie) and Preston (Betty); a daughter, Patricia; daughter-in-law, Loretta of Arlington, TX; grandchildren: Catresse of Rock Island, IL, LaTisha (Terry) of Urbana, IL, Jerome of Jacksonville, FL, Meoshe (Jameel) of Daphne, AL, Delvylon (Bessie) of Prattville, AL, Amanda of Miami, FL, Marlow of Hot Springs, AK, Dexter (La’Toya) of Arlington, TX; great-grandchildren: Charria, Terry, Dylon and Rylee; a host of great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews,cousins, other relatives, friends and church family.