Charlene Bishop

On March 10, 2021, Charlene was

greeted at the gates of heaven by her Lord

and Savior, husband Enis and her son

Shannon.

Family received friends from 2-3 p.m.

Sunday, March 14, 2021 at Kinney-Underwood

Funeral Home. Funeral service

was Monday, March 15, 2021 at 2:00 pm

at the First Baptist Church of Stamford.

Burial followed at Highland Cemetery.

Charlene was born on June 15, 1923, in

Floyd County Texas to Claude and Stella (Childress) Leach. She

graduated from Haskell High in 1941. Promptly after graduation

she was employed by First National Bank of Stamford.

She married Enis Bishop from Rule on March 16, 1944 in

Haskell Texas. The next 40 years were spent living and working

together in Stamford. In 1951 she started working for

Upshaw & Upshaw Insurance until she and Enis started Bishop

Electric in 1957. In 1970 they opened Dice Ice which they ran

until the death of Enis in 1984. At the same time she was also

employed by Jones County as Deputy Tax Collector for 29

years.

She had been a member of the First Baptist Church since

1949 until she moved to Alabama. She moved to Alabama in

June 2017 to live with her daughter and son in law Mitzi and

Randy Grantham. She was a former member of the Pierian

Club and the Garden Club in which she had been president for

both clubs.

Family surviving Charlene are her daughter and son-in-law

Mitzi and Randy Grantham of Northport Alabama. Grandsons

Charles (Teri) Grantham of Northport, Matthew Grantham

and Shelley Milner of Tuscaloosa, Eric (Melissa) Grantham of

Northport, Curtis (Summer) Bishop of Seminole, Texas and

granddaughter Melanie Bishop of Stamford, Texas. Great-

Grandson Hunter Grantham, Nathaniel Grantham, Carson

Grantham all of Northport Alabama, Great Granddaughter

Lilly Grantham of Northport Alabama. Everett Bishop of Stephenville

Texas.

Preceding Charlene in death were her husband of 40 years

Enis Bishop, Shannon Bishop, great-grandson Ethan McKay

Grantham. Her parents Claude Leach, Stella Leach Campbell

and her step father Homer Campbell, two sisters Chrystelle

Hawkins, and Jean Weaver.

In lieu of flowers please make donations to the First Baptist

Church of Stamford; 214 N. Swenson St.; Stamford, Texas

79553 or Hospice of West Alabama; 3851 Loop Rd.; Tuscaloosa,

AL 35404