From The Tribune staff reports
BALDWIN COUNTY – Jeanna Diane Carlisle Speegle, of Trussville, passed away Thursday morning after being critically injured in the Sunday, June 18, Baldwin County crash that had already claimed the lives of three others, including Jeanna’s husband, Daryl Timothy “Tim” Speegle, who was the CFO of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, according to WKRG.
“The biggest thing I can say about her is that she loved her church, she loved her ministry, and she just loved people,” longtime friend and fellow church member Wyatt Wilson said of Jeanna. “There was an electric energy that she had in the room with people. She just had a love for people.”
Jeanna was a member and on staff at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Mountain Brook, where she had a ministry called ROMEO (Retired Old Men Eating Out).
“She literally would drive a busload of these men and take them out to eat,” said Wilson, who is the manager of Ferus in Trussville. “She would come to me – years ago I was at Café on Main and then I was at The Choppin Block in Springville – and she would call me and say she was bringing 18-24 men for lunch. That ministry, they loved her. For someone to be over that type of program, it takes a special person, and those men loved her.”
Jeanna’s husband Tim was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, along with two others, mother and daughter Christie and Margaret Lowe, both of Pelham. After the accident, Jeanna was taken to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, where she succumbed to her injuries on Thursday.
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will be holding a memorial service for Tim and Jeanna on Wednesday, June 28, 2023, at 11 a.m.
David Arthur Colburn, 60, of Elberta, was arrested on June 19, and charged with three counts of manslaughter and one count of driving under the influence, according to Baldwin County Jail records.
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Colburn was arrested after the Trailblazer he was driving struck a black pickup truck, sending it across the median into the oncoming northbound traffic on Baldwin Beach Express where the pickup struck the Speegle’s GMC Yukon, according to WKRG.
The driver of the pickup truck and two children in the pickup truck were also injured.
According to jail records, Colburn is being held on bonds totaling $160,000.