Velma Winters is the manager of Brownie's, and a resident of Chester's Mill, Maine. She is "a big, burly woman who combs her hair like Bobby Darin and looks like she could be the warrior queen of Dyke Nation." She has been married twice, with both husbands dying; the rumor at the Sweetbriar Rose is that "she fucked them both to death." She was present for the Food City riot.