Flags on the Alabama State Capitol grounds and in Mobile County are at half-mast all day Friday in honor of former State Senator Ann Bedsole.

She died December 1st at age 95.

Services for Bedsole are Friday, December 5th at 2 p.m. at Mobile’s Dauphin Way United Methodist Church followed by a visitation there.

Despite overcast weather, a diverse congregation is expected, to include:

Political leaders who knew Ann Bedsole as the first Republican woman serving in the State House and the first woman in the State Senate.

Former students, educators and parents who knew Ann as the envisioner and founder of the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science. Alabama’s best and brightest will continue shining brighter due to Ann Bedsole’s founding of a world-class residential high school for the gi

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