Signing off: Mary Biggs retires from Homewood schools after more than a decade of behind

For more than 13 years, Mary Biggs has been a quiet force behind the scenes of the Homewood City Schools system.

What began as a desire to be involved at Edgewood Elementary — where her children, Patton and Audrey, attended — grew into a long-running commitment to every school her kids moved through. From kindergarten classroom parties to high school PTO communications, Biggs stayed one step ahead of what parents needed.

“I really just wanted to be able to be inside the school, be able to really get to know their teachers and the children that they were in class with,” Biggs said. “And I mean, it’s crazy, because I watched these kids from the time they were in kindergarten. They have all just graduated.”

Both of her children are now students at Auburn University.

At Edgewood, Biggs was