Ginger Gale Underwood
August 29, 1953 – November 3, 2024

Ginger Gale Underwood was the youngest of five, two brothers and two sisters. She is survived by her husband Steven Messer, her daughter Melissa Underwood, her son Teddy Underwood, her sister Donna Wilders and Phyllis Hall.
Ginger was the lover of many things to include family, travel, plants, animals and music. There were no strangers in Ginger’s house her door was always open for company cousins, friends, family and teenagers alike. Ginger practically raised all the teenagers that lived in Cape Canaveral Florida in the 80’s. She was such an AMAZING mom she alway reminded her kids and grandkids alike how much she loved them.
To say that Ginger loved to travel is an understatement. It was nothing for her to scoop up Chris, Makayla, Heather, Robbie, Kiley, Mikey and CJ and take them to a cabin in Tennessee for a week or white water rafting and then to take an ice cold shower under a waterfall. She even would drag the whole crew including anybody else who wanted to go to the Kentucky Derby.
Ginger was an avid gardener, she would turn on Bob Marley’s Jammin and go out in the yard and plant a veggie garden which she would make homemade baby food for her kids when they were babies. She would take her grandkids out in her backyard at night with a flashlight and show them where all of her “pet lizards” lived. She would say, “ This lizards name is Speedy and he sleeps on this leaf inside down every night .” Then she would turn that leaf over and there he would be upside down just like she said. She even built a concrete pond in her front yard for the frogs, she lived to hear them croak.
Ginger had a firm belief in God and his promise of eternal life and looked forward to the day she joined him in heaven. Although our hearts are heavy and we miss her, we know she is with the Lord now and we will see her again when we join her in heaven someday.