Regina Peairs Winbush

Regina E. Peairs Winbush was born on December 23, 1965 in Oxford,
Mississippi to Earnest S. Peairs, Sr. and Estella McCorkle Peairs. She
passed from this life to the next at the age of 60 on December 24, 2025 in
Slidell, Louisiana.

Regina was a 1983 graduate of Oxford High School. In 1987, she went
on to obtain a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Pathology and Audiology from
the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Later, she received
her Master of Arts in Communicative Disorders at the University of
Mississippi.

After her education, she took her first professional position in public
health working as an audiologist with the Louisiana Department of
Health and Hospitals. She worked for 20 years before her retirement from
that system. Regina taught communicative disorders students at Southern
University in Baton Rouge. Then, she started her own consulting business
before being hired by Oticon, an international hearing aid company, for
thirteen years. She left the company once she began to face health
challenges. Throughout her professional life, she always advocated for
children, their families and the hearing impaired.

She married Ryan W. Winbush on May 7, 2005 and on that date she
became the "bonus" mother to Ke'Onbre Bessie. They remained
committed to each other for over 20 years.

Regina was a woman of faith and earned an Associate of Divinity degree
in 2003. Later, she received her calling to ministry and was also an
ordained minister and woman of faith. Ordained in August of 2013, she
was active in ministry and as a church member with several congregations
including Greater King David Baptist Church and Ministry of Love in the
Greater Baton Rouge area. Most recently, she was a member of Divine
Nature Assembly in Montgomery, Alabama. Even with her health
challenges, Regina continued to volunteer.