Life’s Reflections
Sister Savannah Haywood was born February 13, 1923, to the late Mary Frances Banks Moore and James Monroe Moore, Sr. in Memphis, TN. She was proceeded in death by her husband, Clifton Purnell Haywood, Sr. and one son, Clifton P. Haywood, Jr. four sisters; Bernice Watson, Viola Ware, Earnestine Rivers, Eunice Taylor, and Norma Jean Crocker, six brothers; Leatha Moore, Carl Moore, Samuel Moore, John Nelson Moore, Herbert Cato Moore, and James M. Moore, Jr.
She accepted Christ and was baptized at New Tyler AME Church, where she served as a junior usher. She married Clifton Haywood, Sr. at Pearl Street AME Church in Jackson, MS. One child (Cliff, Jr.) was born to this union. She relocated to Chicago, IL and joined St. James AME, and later united with the Wheaton Christian Center in Wheaton, Illinois. Savannah retired from the Chicago Public School System after working as an Elementary School teacher for 25 years. She held graduate certificates from Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, TN, and Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio. She was especially proud that her brother, Samuel, sent her to college. She was widely traveled, loved baseball, and worked tirelessly with The Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
She leaves to cherish her memory one sister, Londie Brown, one sister-inlaw, Floy Hill, eleven nephews, Cedric Brown (Fralena), Kendall Brown of San Francisco, CA, Rufus Moore (Amelia) of Chicago, IL, Perrin Emmanuel (Pamela) of Pontiac, MI, Terry Moore (LaDonna) of Highland Park, MI, Floyd Moore, Michael Moore (Joyce), Charles Anthony Moore, Kevin Moore, and Victor Moore (Catherine) of Houston, TX, seven nieces, Jeanette Payton, Ruby Ware, Johnetta Moore, Mary Wooldridge (John) and Thomas Pierce, great-nieces and great-nephews, great-great-nieces, great-great nephews, cousins, and friends.
Since you’ll never be forgotten, I pledge to you today~
A hollowed place within my heart is where you’ll always stay.
rder of Service
Saturday, March 27, 2021 10:30 A.M.
Harrison’s Memorial Chapel, Inc. 3320 Millbranch Road • Memphis, Tennessee 38116
The Reverend Hilda D. Taylor, Officiating Pastor, New Tyler AME Church
Processional Prayer........................................................................Elder James Lawson Rosemark COGIC
Scripture Readings...................................................Dr. Barbara S. Green Pastor, Bethel AME Church
Expressions of Love
(Respectfully, Two Minutes Please) Sis. Annette Jackson-Raggs - Caregiver Sis. Ruby Ware - Family
Words of Comfort............................................................Rev. Hilda Taylor Pastor, New Tyler AME Church
Recessional
If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane. I would walk right up to Heaven and bring you back again.
Our hearts still ache with sadness, and secret tears still flow. What it meant to lose youNo on can ever know.
No farewell words were spoken, No time to say, “Goodbye”. You were gone before I knew it, And only God knows why.
But now I know you want me To mourn for you no more;
To remember all the happy times Life still has much in store.
