Cathenia Spencer Guider Obituary
With heavy hearts, we announce the death of Cathenia Spencer Guider of Birmingham, Alabama, who passed away on September 23, 2025 at the age of 97. Family and friends are welcome to send flowers or leave their condolences on this memorial page and share them with the family.
As we bid Cathenia farewell, let us not mourn the absence of her physical form, but rather celebrate the essence of her spirit that lingers in the spaces between moments. For Cathenia is not truly gone, but merely transformed, her energy intertwined with the fabric of the universe itself, forever dancing among the stars.
She was predeceased by: her parent Reverend Curley James; her husband Raymond L. Guider of Columbia, SC; and her daughter Dr. Cora A. Johnson of Hephzibah, GA. She is survived by: her daughter Cathenia Doretha Guider Dobbs; her son-in-law Eric L. Dobbs, Sr. of Lilburn, GA; her grandchildren, Cora Victoria Turner (Jeffery Turner) of Lawrenceville, GA, Coley Works, Jr. (Jessica Works) of Snellville, GA and Christopher Works of Decatur, GA; her great grandchild Christina A. Turner; and her sister Anna Bea Ford of Chicago. She is also survived by cousins, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
