Adele Stackhouse

Adele is Jason and Sookie Stackhouse's grandmother and raised them after their parents died in a flash flood when they were young.

Book One: Dead Until Dark
In the first book Adele is killed by Rene Lenier. Rene was waiting for Sookie to come home so he could kill her as he doesn't like 'fangbangers' and when arrived at their house and found Adele there he panicked.