Amy Dawn Durham

Mrs. Amy Parker Durham, 57, beloved wife, mother, sister, aunt, friend, and daughter, but most importantly a child of God, while surrounded by her family, passed from this world to her heavenly home, on Sunday, November 16, 2025.
Funeral services will be 3:00 PM, Thursday, November 20, 2025, at Flint River Primitive Baptist Church with Elder Ben Winslett officiating. Amy will be interred at Cedar Grove Baptist Church with Rev. Mark Swaringen officiating in the church cemetery at 3:00 PM on Saturday, November 22, 2025.
The family will greet friends at the church on Thursday from 1:00 PM until 3:00 PM and from 1:00 PM until 3:00 PM on Saturday.
Amy was born in Monroe, NC on June 8, 1968 to Hugh Linwood Parker Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Parker. Her biggest memories growing up were participating in dance for 9 years, being a flag-girl in marching band, and being very active in church youth groups.
Amy attending the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English. While there, she participated in both Air Force and Army ROTC, eventually receiving an Army officer's commission in the Engineer Corps and served in the Army National Guard. She met her husband, Mike, in Army ROTC and after graduation, began a 23 year journey to posts in the US and Germany as an army spouse. She worked as a news and document editor for several organizations before stopping work to raise her children as a stay at home mom and home-school teacher. She was an amazing teacher, with both children enrolling in college with scholarships. Amy loved to travel, experience new things, and share those with her children. She also loved to junk and would always find a way to stop at a new or favorite junk, thrift, or antique store. She loved art museums, books, and had a life-long love of reading classic literature.
Amy found joy in helping people, she liked to give and show kindness for those in her family and church. This came from her love of the Lord and she was a humble child of God. She found peace and guidance in the Bible and comfort knowing her Savior, Jesus Christ.
Amy is survived by her husband, Mike Durham; her son, Ryan; her daughter, Claire; her mother, Mary Elizabeth (Lib) Parker; her brother, Hugh Linwood (Woody) Parker, Jr. (Amy McAdam Parker); and several nieces and nephews, Brandon (Lisa), Joshua (Shana), Megan (Dusty), Ethan, and Sawyer. She is also survived by her aunts Karen Maurice (Peter) and Betty Clark.
She was preceded in death by her father, Hugh Parker.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in memory of Amy to Hospice Family Care, Huntsville Hospital Foundation, or to the Cedar Grove Baptist Church cemetery fund, Cedar Grove Baptist Church, Care of: Alice Cox, 12509 Highway 742 N, Polkton, N.C., 28135,
The arrangements are in care of Hampton Cover Funeral home in Alabama and Leavitt Funeral Home in North Carolina. Online condolences may be made at www.hampton covefh.com and www.leavittfh.com