Annie Laura Coleman, was born to the late Woodrow W. Coleman, Sr. and Odessa T. Coleman on January 11, 1951 in Brookhaven , MS. She was the fourth of seven children. While growing up in Brookhaven, she and her siblings were among the first seven black children to be integrated into the an all-white school system during the transitional period of the Civil Rights Movement in 1965.
After graduating high school, she furthered her education at the University of Southern Mississippi. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communications in the Spring of 1972. In the fall of 1972, she married (Agee) and had two daughters while working as a manager of customer service for a major corporation.
At the end of the marriage, she returned to Goodman, MS, and received the call of God to preach the gospel in 1985. Upon submitting to the Lord's call, she attended Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, GA. She later remarried, (Davis), and completed her Master of Divinity degree in 1987.
She moved to Florida, and began her career of service as a pastor within the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church. Throughout her pastoral career, she wrote and published poetry, editorials and articles that covered multiple subjects with a faith-based perspective. She later had a son and continued to serve on multiple committees and boards within the conference. Ultimately, she was ordained to elder within the United Methodist Church, until her official retirement in June of 2019. Although she was no longer a pastor, she continued to evangelize the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ until succumbing to illness.
She survives through her three children, Balisha Agee of Memphis, TN, Simone Agee of West Palm Beach, FL, and Emmanuel Davis of Pembroke Pines, FL., her grandson, Aaron Agee of Drew, MS, her siblings, Maggie Stingley, Mattie Coleman, Woodrow W. Coleman, Jr. (Leanna), Degina Booker (Walter), and Delois Johnson (Curtis), as well as a host of extended family, friends, and colleagues.