Annell West Streeter was born on March 21, 1944 to Samuel West and Ruby Mae Hill-West-Graves in Midway Alabama. Annell was reared in the fear and admonition of God in First Baptist Church of Midway Alabama where she remained an active and ever-present member until her death.

She attended Merritt Primary School in Midway, Alabama and later moved to Birmingham Alabama graduating from Ullman High School in 1962. Annell entered Daniel Payne Jr. College after high school and later entered Alabama State University where she received a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Music and English. She completed her graduate studies also at Alabama State University with a Master’s Degree in Music Education.

Annell worked as a Teacher in Alabama for Birmingham Public Schools, Barbour County Schools and in Georgia’s Public Schools System. She tirelessly served in the capacity of musician and choir directoress for several churches in Birmingham and later in many churches in Midway, Alabama.

Annell’s interests were not only dedicated to music but writing as well, having authored and published two biographical novels chronicling her early life’s experiences growing up in a small southern town and the hardships of being an African American woman in the south during the Civil Rights Movement.

Preceeding Annell in death is her son, Anthony L. Streeter; her husband, Lawrence Streeter; her mother, Ruby Mae Hill-West-Graves; her father, Samuel West; and Grandparents, Rev. Willie L. and Mrs. Annie B. Hill.

Annell departed this life on Monday at 5:02 a.m., July 27, 2015 at Jackson Hospital of Montgomery Alabama.

To cherish her memory she leaves a devoted brother, Carl West; a loving sister, Wilma Jean Garrett (Arthur): two aunts, Mrs. Mattie Bell Cauthern and Mrs. Ann Whitten (James); a nephew, Frederick Graves (Tamika); two great nephews, Frederick and Jared Graves; and two nieces, Ashleigh and Faith Graves; numerous cousins; incuding, her dedicated and loving cousins and friends, Sis. Patrice Van Hill and Richard West.