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Hannelore “Hannah” Dawson, a resident of Bessemer was surrounded by her family as she made her transition to meet our Lord on July 28, 2019 after a fierce battle from a recent stroke. She owned and operated Hannah’s Beauty Shop in Fairfield for over 50 years, there she used her talents and warm nature to create lifelong bonds and her clients who in turn became an extension of her family. The compassion that she displayed was not only given to the living but also to her clients who had passed away as she would do their hair at numerous funeral homes throughout Jefferson County in her words “to make them pretty one last time”.

She was a feisty German immigrant who was possibly one of the most determined and strong-willed individuals to walk upon the earth. She never met a stranger and her family often joked that she was the original “Hannah Home”, helping the homeless and less fortunate, cooking for family and friends, driving to or arranging travel for her clients that were homebound or alone, and many other thoughtful gestures long forgotten by today’s society. She was definitely a fighter overcoming many obstacles and living a life filled with purpose.

Her greatest contributions to life were intangible things, her smile, her laughter, her dedication to her family and friends. While she would not have been considered wealthy if measured by material things by all other standards she was blessed and so were all that knew her,her tenacity and giving spirit now gone will make the world a much poorer place.

She is survived by her children; Bobby (Lorna) Tucker, Richard Tucker, Charles Tucker, Rodney Tucker, Alvin Tucker, Ellen (Amy) Scheirer, and Dee Dee Macon, 10 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren.

Professional services provided by W.E. Lusain Funeral Home and Crematory, Birmingham, Alabama. 
March 10
March 10
Happy birthday to the best woman I have ever known. I just do not know how much longer I can go on without you. I don’t know how many silent birthdays of yours I can handle. How many more death dates go by. I love you more than you could have ever known and almost 5 years later I’m still not ok in the slightest.
March 10, 2023
March 10, 2023
Happy Birthday Mawmaw.

 Probably would've laughed again at me breaking down last night. Idk what else to do anymore without. Sometimes I think that it should have been me to go first because you are stronger than I am and would have been able to continue on with your life without morning for so long and so much.
July 28, 2022
July 28, 2022
Wow. Just wow. 3 whole years today without you. I keep trying to pretend that I am ok. But am I though? If I am being honest I don't think I will ever be ok. I am lost without you. Especially this time of year. Your birthday sucks without you. Mine sucks because you aren't here to call me like you use to. You never forgot it. I just need you. Not the urn on my mantle. I need YOU. My kids need YOU. Mom needs YOU.

Also why does it make me mad that no one else ever messages you on here? Is that crazy? Does that make me crazy that I do? I refuse to give up even the smallest detail of your memory. I refuse to forget how you sounded. I refuse to forget your laugh. I just simply REFUSE. But I feel as in refusing I am taking myself down a rabbit hole that I always have a hard time crawling out of. But it is a rabbit hole that a lot of times I don't mind being in because it was made because of you. Everything I do I just hope you would be proud of.

You would be proud of Chase and his baseball skills. You would have LOVED seeing him play! Kaylee and her weirdness is just funny in itself. She is already 12 if you can believe that!

I would have given ANYTHING for you to see your Great Granddaughter turn into a teenager. But I guess I do need to be lucky that she at least got her Great Grandmother for the 9 years she did. I got you for 29 years and most people don't even get that time. I will always worship the ground you walked on. I will always think of you as the most amazing person to ever walk this planet.

I tell everyone I come into contact with at work that losing someone gets easier. It just takes time. But it's a lie. I know it is. But I tell it anyways. Maybe to help them, Maybe to help me. I haven't figured that part out yet. Either way it isn't true. But hey what's living without a little lie to help others. No human never lied to get by. I lie to myself daily saying I am ok without you. I am not. I never will be. But that's ok right?

There are a lot of answers that I will never know. A lot of questions I will forever have. But that's that whole process of grieving. Moving on right?

Just know that I will FOREVER love you. And even though I am not a holy believer I do hope that wherever you may be you can read these messages. Maybe get a good laugh of me being a baby. I am sure you and Alvin are having a blast. That's the one thing I am glad of is that after all those years of you worrying about him and after you were gone we worried about him he is now with you forever. No more worry if he is ok. He couldn't live without and vice versa. No matter how many times y'all butted heads he was your baby. We all knew it lol. But he will forever be safe with you. He will forever be taken care of.

Love you lots and forever Mawmaw! Until next time!
April 26, 2022
April 26, 2022
Mawmaw,

  Just passed another year of when you had your stroke. I honestly still can't accept you're gone. Is it weird that writing to you is my therapy? Feels a bit weird but at the same time you were always the one person I could talk to about anything. The one person that I could judge people with. I could really use you right now. Nothing is wrong I just need you. I need to visit with you. I need to talk to you.

I wear you daily and you have never missed a baseball game for Chase. We aren't always winners but you would've been proud regardless. You were always proud regardless.

I love you mawmaw.
November 22, 2021
November 22, 2021
Hey Mawmaw,

Sure by now you know that Alvin is no longer with us. Honestly I am sure you both are happy to have each other again. It is ok to admit finally that he may not have been THE baby but he was YOUR baby. And we are all ok with that. Knowing that you are both together brings so much comfort. Comfort knowing we no longer have to worry about him. Comfort knowing you can keep better tabs on him lol.

I finally got around to ordering a necklace for you. I know it seems like it has been forever but I did it. Just couldn't bear myself to do it.

I miss you Mawmaw!! Until we meet again. Until then I hope Alvin says Hey from all of us!
October 25, 2021
October 25, 2021
Hey Mawmaw,

  It's been a few months since I just came to say hey. I love you very much and still cry if I think about you too much. So basically I am crying a lot. Now that Christmas is coming it's hard because I want to celebrate with you. I want to see the two trees you put up. You would have laughed last year when I got mad because the one tree that got put up was not in the same place you always put it. My response was MawMaw did it this way. She wouldn't have liked that. It's the normal for me I miss. It's the birthday phones calls. It's the gossip talk we did. The name calling. The Murder she Wrote and In the Heat of the Night. The Maury. The Matlock. The days we just watched TV. I miss it all and don't ever think I won't. You still inspire me everyday and I still talk about you constantly. I don't think I will ever stop. I love you so so so so so much and thank you for being the MawMaw you were and always stayed. I couldn't have been more lucky.

  I love you!!
July 28, 2021
July 28, 2021
Mawmaw,
 2 years ago I lost you. I thought it would get easier...and it did....until today. Until I woke up today I could function. I never thought of life without you and slowly figuring life out has been HARD. I love you more then words can say and just simply am heartbroken you arent here anymore. Not a day goes by I don't think of you. You would laugh at me getting your signature tattooed on my hand. But I did. And every day I get to see your name like you have wrote it all over again.

2 whole years. 2 freaking years. Where do I go from here?
July 8, 2021
July 8, 2021
20 days left until we hit the 2 year mark.... 2 whole years... WOW.... It just doesn't seem real at all... I never thought I would have a day without you. You promised me I would have you until you were 100. I was banking on that. But I have to one day accept the fact that 100 was not your age. You lived a lot in your 84 years with us. Just my 29 years with you wasn't and will never be enough. I will always be selfish and I will always want more time. And I think it is ok for me to think that way from time to time. The fact I have made it two years without you has shocked me. I was ready to go out with you. My best friend. My other half of my heart. The one person outside of my kids I would do anything and everything for. Was you. Will always be you. And can never be anyone else. I know I say this all the time and I am pretty sure people are tired of me saying this but you are my favorite person in this whole world. Not a day, Second, Minute, Hour goes by without me thinking of you in some way shape or form. I will forever carry on your memory. Your great great grands will know of you. They will hear your stories. They will feel your love thru me. If I can just be HALF of the grandmother you were on day then I know you will have fully done everything for me. You paved the way for all of us to follow. I know you would probably tell me to suck it up and not cry but at the same time I know your hugs would stop it all.... One day Mawmaw.. One day... I will get that hug again!

  I love you more then all the stars in the galaxy combined and then some <3
March 31, 2021
March 31, 2021
Hey MawMaw,
 Figured I would write again. You know I don't believe in this whole after life thing but if you do see this..... Happy late Birthday. I celebrated your actual birthday. Posted pictures and cried. You know my new normal without you. I think you would have liked what I got mom for her birthday. Basically just a shrine to you lol. I think you would have been pretty proud of me for saving your flower for almost two years. I have never saved anything for that long in my life!
  I know it's been almost two years with you but it STILL doesn't seem real. Is it weird for me to be almost 31 years old and still want to pull a kid move and just wish to have you back on my birthday? it is what I wished for last year. I wished for it on your birthday. Both of them you have missed but I never will.
 You have NO idea how MUCH I miss you!!!!!! I mean it really is no doubt that you were and still are my ALL time favorite person on this planet. You set the bar so high for a grandparent that no one could ever compare. I'm not just talking about in our family. No one could ever have a grandmother as awesome as you. And you did it all without really even trying. You were just feisty German you. And I couldn't want anything more. Thank you for being you and loving me the way you did!

Until next time!!!!
December 21, 2020
December 21, 2020
Mawmaw,
 A year and a half later and here I am. Finally writing to you. I tell you all the time thru your pictures how much I love you. Your determination, strengths and overall courage to do whatever you wanted and say whatever you felt. There are not enough words in this world to tell you how much I love you. Not enough tears in this world to cry for you. But there are plenty of smiles to remember you by! You know and everyone does that you were my world. You still are. You forever will be. You may be Mawmaw but you still will always be my 2nd mom. The one who got onto me just as hard. Never cut me any slack but loved me more then life itself. Never did a day go by that I didn't know how much you loved me. And for the rest of my life and the lives of my kids there STILL will never be a day we don't remember the love you had for us and the love we still have for you to this day and for many many more days to come. You were my favorite person in the world and you knew it.

  I love you more than anything in this world and ONE day we will meet again and I can not wait for all the stories!!!
July 31, 2019
July 31, 2019
Hannah was a great person and a wonderful mother-in-law. She could cook anything you asked for and wow, it was awesome! I loved her and she will be truly missed.
July 30, 2019
July 30, 2019
Hannah was a kind and loving person. Always with a smile and always eager to help anyone who needed it. She loved her family and reveled in doing things for them. She will be missed by many.

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March 10
March 10
Happy birthday to the best woman I have ever known. I just do not know how much longer I can go on without you. I don’t know how many silent birthdays of yours I can handle. How many more death dates go by. I love you more than you could have ever known and almost 5 years later I’m still not ok in the slightest.
March 10, 2023
March 10, 2023
Happy Birthday Mawmaw.

 Probably would've laughed again at me breaking down last night. Idk what else to do anymore without. Sometimes I think that it should have been me to go first because you are stronger than I am and would have been able to continue on with your life without morning for so long and so much.
July 28, 2022
July 28, 2022
Wow. Just wow. 3 whole years today without you. I keep trying to pretend that I am ok. But am I though? If I am being honest I don't think I will ever be ok. I am lost without you. Especially this time of year. Your birthday sucks without you. Mine sucks because you aren't here to call me like you use to. You never forgot it. I just need you. Not the urn on my mantle. I need YOU. My kids need YOU. Mom needs YOU.

Also why does it make me mad that no one else ever messages you on here? Is that crazy? Does that make me crazy that I do? I refuse to give up even the smallest detail of your memory. I refuse to forget how you sounded. I refuse to forget your laugh. I just simply REFUSE. But I feel as in refusing I am taking myself down a rabbit hole that I always have a hard time crawling out of. But it is a rabbit hole that a lot of times I don't mind being in because it was made because of you. Everything I do I just hope you would be proud of.

You would be proud of Chase and his baseball skills. You would have LOVED seeing him play! Kaylee and her weirdness is just funny in itself. She is already 12 if you can believe that!

I would have given ANYTHING for you to see your Great Granddaughter turn into a teenager. But I guess I do need to be lucky that she at least got her Great Grandmother for the 9 years she did. I got you for 29 years and most people don't even get that time. I will always worship the ground you walked on. I will always think of you as the most amazing person to ever walk this planet.

I tell everyone I come into contact with at work that losing someone gets easier. It just takes time. But it's a lie. I know it is. But I tell it anyways. Maybe to help them, Maybe to help me. I haven't figured that part out yet. Either way it isn't true. But hey what's living without a little lie to help others. No human never lied to get by. I lie to myself daily saying I am ok without you. I am not. I never will be. But that's ok right?

There are a lot of answers that I will never know. A lot of questions I will forever have. But that's that whole process of grieving. Moving on right?

Just know that I will FOREVER love you. And even though I am not a holy believer I do hope that wherever you may be you can read these messages. Maybe get a good laugh of me being a baby. I am sure you and Alvin are having a blast. That's the one thing I am glad of is that after all those years of you worrying about him and after you were gone we worried about him he is now with you forever. No more worry if he is ok. He couldn't live without and vice versa. No matter how many times y'all butted heads he was your baby. We all knew it lol. But he will forever be safe with you. He will forever be taken care of.

Love you lots and forever Mawmaw! Until next time!
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