Mildred Aniece Griffin Yelverton was born in Perry County on Aug. 8, 1928. She grew up and finished high school in Marion and then graduated from Alabama College (now University of Montevallo) and earned MA and MLS degrees from the University of Alabama. She taught high school before becoming a librarian and retired as director of the Judson College Library.

During tenure as library director at Judson College, she served as executive director of Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame, housed at Judson.

After retirement, she published a book about the first 25 women inducted – “They Also Served.”

Mildred married Clyde E. Yelverton of Uniontown, where they lived until they retired and moved to Montgomery in 1990. They moved to Dothan in 2001 where she became a member of Covenant United Methodist Church.

She is predeceased by her parents, the late Judge James C. Griffin and Mrs. Annie Lee Harris Griffin; her husband of 55 years, Clyde E. Yelverton; a son, Stanley Griffin Yelverton; and brothers, William Byrd Griffin and James C. Griffin; and sisters, Eleanor Frances Griffin and Mary G. Auburtin.

She is survived by a son, Clyde E. Yelverton Jr., and his wife, Robin of Dothan; a son, James W. (Jim) Yelverton of Venice, Fla.; four grandchildren, Lindsay and James Yelverton of Venice and Andrea and Clyde E. (Brother) Yelverton III of Dothan; two sisters, Rebecca Culpepper of Demopolis and Elizabeth Griffin of Augusta, Ga.; two sisters-in-law, Linda Jackson of Montgomery and Laverne Griffin of Loganville, Ga; and a number of nieces and nephews in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Washington and California.

The family will receive friends Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall at Covenant Methodist Church with a brief celebration of life service following at 2 p.m. with Hays McKay and Kyle Gatlin officiating. Graveside service will be Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Rosemont Cemetery in Marion with Dan Thornton officiating.