Ala. Code § 31-8-24
Should a widow who is a pensioner under this chapter die leaving a minor child or children, a warrant equal to the total amount of the next three monthly payments succeeding the death of the pensioner shall be issued and delivered, as other pension warrants are issued and delivered, to the minor child or children of such pensioner, and should there be no minor child of such deceased pensioner, the county department of human resources shall endorse such fact on the pension warrant and collect the same and apply the proceeds, first, to the payment of the burial expenses, and, second, to the expenses of the last illness of the pensioner. Any unexpended balance remaining shall be returned to the Treasury to the credit of the fund against which the warrant was drawn.
Ala. Code § 31-8-24 (1975)