Raylene Hamilton (Novel Series)

Raylene Hamilton is a character that is mentioned in The Walking Dead: The Road To Woodbury. She is the mother of Josh Lee Hamilton.

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A few years before the apocalypse started, Raylene was diagnosed with lupus erythematosus. She taught Josh the basics of cooking, and how to make bread pudding that was so good it would bring tears to your eyes. She would take in anyone, from shaggy dogs to misfits to hardened panhandlers to homeless. She would call them Honey child and make them corn bread and sweet tea until they stole from her or got in a fight.

The Walking Dead: The Road To Woodbury
During the initial stages of the apocalypse, SWAT helped protect the area where Raylene and Josh lived. When Josh went to work one day, he returned home to find increased activity of SWAT near his home. When he arrived, he found cops carrying out parts of his mothers body. When he went inside he saw six dead walkers, his mothers fingers on the floor, part of her body on the dining room table, and the majority of her sitting in a chair, her neck ripped open. Josh recalls that his mother left the window open and set the table with her good china. He later tells Lilly, “She invited them things in for corn bread and beans… she took them in… like shaggy dogs… because that’s what she does. Loves all God’s creatures. Probably called them ‘honey-child’  … right up until the moment they ate her.”

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Josh arrived home one day to find that six walkers had entered his house threw the window. They ripped off her fingers, and spread her body parts across the room. The majority of her was sitting in a chair, her neck ripped open.
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