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Raylene Hamilton is a character mentioned in The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury. She is the mother of Joshua Hamilton.
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Greenville, South Carolina[]
Raylene was a single parent of five children, including Joshua and Alicia. She was a devout Baptist and loved all God's creatures. Because of that, Raylene, as sweet as the day is long, would take in anyone from shaggy dogs to misfits to hardened panhandlers to the homeless. She would call them "honey child" and bake them cornbread and mix up sweet tea until they stole from her or got involved in a fight in her front parlor.
In the mid-1980s, she has diagnosed with lupus erythematosus, a chronic autoimmune disease. She had fought the sickness hard for years while her son Joshua provided as her caretaker. She was also good at culinary, teaching her son Joshua the basics of cooking and making bread pudding that was so good, like "it would bring tears to your eyes and joy to your belly."
Atlanta, Georgia[]
At some point, she moved to Atlanta with Joshua. She once had a pickpocket grab her purse, making his son loses control. In 2003, she was failing her health due to another fatal disease. The doctor said Alzheimer's was coming, and she didn't think straight.
Post-Apocalypse[]
Atlanta, Georgia[]
During the initial stages of the outbreak, SWAT helped protect the area where Raylene and Joshua lived. When Joshua 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 body parts belonging to his mother. When he went inside he discovered six dead zombies, his mothers fingers on the floor, part of her body on the dining room table, and the majority of her sitting in a chair, neck ripped open. Joshua recalls that his mother had 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."
Death[]
- Killed By
Josh arrived home one day to discover that six zombies had entered his house through the window. They had ripped off her fingers, and spread her body parts across the room. The majority of her was sitting in a chair, neck ripped open.