Obituary – Addie Elender Summers
Addie E. Summers
ABBEVILLE, AL – Addie E. Summers, of Abbeville, AL, passed away on Dec. 30 at Crowne Healthcare of Eufaula.
Addie was born on August 1, 1933, to the late Ross G. Summers and Elenezer (Strickland) Summers in the Orange Community of Liberty County, FL, near Bristol.
She was preceded by her parents, as well as her sister, Rowena Eubanks of Bristol.
She is survived by her daughter, Nathania (Nat Middlebrooks) Langford, and husband BJ.; a granddaughter, Gale M. (Perdue) Gower, and husband Kurtis, of Tallahassee, FL; a step-grandson, Will Langford and Brieanna Boisa of Watford City, ND; a great-granddaughter, Emmalea R. Smith of Tallahassee ; and a step-great-grandson, Liam James Langford of Watford City, ND; a truly beloved niece, Teresa Eubanks of Bristol; two very special friends, Hope Richardson Offet of Dothan, AL and Glenda Davis of Headland, AL, as well as her church family at the Spiritual Enrichment Center of Dothan.
Addie graduated from Liberty County High School, and then Florida State College for Women in 1955, with a degree in Communication and Information.
She began her career in journalism in Seneca, SC, and later worked with the Tallahassee Democrat. She worked with the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, FL, where she met and married her husband, David N. (Tex) Middlebrooks of Dothan.
She and her husband owned and operated a weekly newspaper, The Enterpriser, in Enterprise, AL. She then went on to be the Executive Director of Tri Rivers Waterway Association, while receiving a Master’s Degree from Troy State University in Counseling.
She retired from Chipola College in Marianna, where she administrated the New Beginnings program for women with children reentering the workforce.
Well into her eighties, she attended her gym, Fitness Advantage in Dothan, where she still holds the record for holding a plank – three minutes!
Addie was a very practical, meticulous, and fiscally responsible person; as a friend pointed out, in reference to her Dec. 30 passing, “she was so practical that she would want to wrap up a tax year and not have anything lingering into 2024!”.
Her family would like to send our warmest thanks to Crowne Healthcare in Eufaula for taking such good care of “Miss Addie” for the last four years of her life; the great staff on A-Wing were such a blessing! We would like to thank Darlene Jernigan and Kim Coffin in particular, for the obvious love and care given to Addie, and well as her family.
She lived a very full and rich life, and the family will be acknowledging her at a private graveside service at Eureka Cemetery in Orange, FL at a later date.
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