1910
Frances
2006
Frances Haywood
March 13, 1910 — August 3, 2006
FRANCES STONE HAYWOOD
TUPELO - FRANCES STONE HAYWOOD, 96, died Thursday, August 3, 2006, at Hospice of West Alabama, Tuscaloosa, after an extended illness. She was born March 13, 1910 in the Knob Creek community of Maury County, Tenn. to the late Thomas Alexander and Fannye Ethel Snow Dodson Stone. A long time resident of Tupelo, she was the widow of William Thomas Haywood. She was an active and long time member of Calvary Baptist Church where she served as a Sunday School teacher, departmental and general superintendent. She retired in 2002 as the volunteer librarian of Calvary Baptist Church after 40 years of devoted service. A second cousin four times removed of Abraham Lincoln, she was descended from a number of Maury County founding fathers, among whom were Moses Hanks, uncle of Abraham Lincoln, and his wife Agatha Dodson, George Hanks and his wife Laurane Hill, John Bird Fitzgerald and wife, Nancy Dodson. Well into her 93rd year, she assisted in the genealogical and historical research of her son William, former editor of Historic Maury and founder of the Maury County Historical Societys Loose Records Project which evolved into the Maury County Archives.
Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, August 5, 2006 at The Jefferson Street Chapel of W. E. Pegues with Dr. Bryant Barnes and Rev. Mark Ramsey officiating. Dr. William Haywood will deliver the eulogy. Burial will be in Tupelo Memorial Park.
Survivors include her five children, William Thomas Haywood, Jr., of Columbia, Tenn., Robert Stone Haywood of Atlanta, Ga., Helen Sue Haywood Hahn and husband, Fred, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., Frances Ann Haywood Ramsey of Tupelo, and Charles Edward Haywood and wife, Diane Deuschle, of Suwanee, Ga.; 15 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren; and her sister, Lorraine Stone Vallado of Jackson.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of 53 years, William Thomas Haywood; her sister, Helen Stone Davis, her brothers, Raymond, Wilton, Milton, and Harold Stone.
Pallbearers will be her nine grandsons.
Her six granddaughters will serve as Honorary Pallbearers.
Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. Friday and from 12 p.m. until service time Saturday at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the Calvary Baptist Church Library at 501 West Main, Tupelo, MS 38801.
TUPELO - FRANCES STONE HAYWOOD, 96, died Thursday, August 3, 2006, at Hospice of West Alabama, Tuscaloosa, after an extended illness. She was born March 13, 1910 in the Knob Creek community of Maury County, Tenn. to the late Thomas Alexander and Fannye Ethel Snow Dodson Stone. A long time resident of Tupelo, she was the widow of William Thomas Haywood. She was an active and long time member of Calvary Baptist Church where she served as a Sunday School teacher, departmental and general superintendent. She retired in 2002 as the volunteer librarian of Calvary Baptist Church after 40 years of devoted service. A second cousin four times removed of Abraham Lincoln, she was descended from a number of Maury County founding fathers, among whom were Moses Hanks, uncle of Abraham Lincoln, and his wife Agatha Dodson, George Hanks and his wife Laurane Hill, John Bird Fitzgerald and wife, Nancy Dodson. Well into her 93rd year, she assisted in the genealogical and historical research of her son William, former editor of Historic Maury and founder of the Maury County Historical Societys Loose Records Project which evolved into the Maury County Archives.
Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, August 5, 2006 at The Jefferson Street Chapel of W. E. Pegues with Dr. Bryant Barnes and Rev. Mark Ramsey officiating. Dr. William Haywood will deliver the eulogy. Burial will be in Tupelo Memorial Park.
Survivors include her five children, William Thomas Haywood, Jr., of Columbia, Tenn., Robert Stone Haywood of Atlanta, Ga., Helen Sue Haywood Hahn and husband, Fred, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., Frances Ann Haywood Ramsey of Tupelo, and Charles Edward Haywood and wife, Diane Deuschle, of Suwanee, Ga.; 15 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren; and her sister, Lorraine Stone Vallado of Jackson.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of 53 years, William Thomas Haywood; her sister, Helen Stone Davis, her brothers, Raymond, Wilton, Milton, and Harold Stone.
Pallbearers will be her nine grandsons.
Her six granddaughters will serve as Honorary Pallbearers.
Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. Friday and from 12 p.m. until service time Saturday at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the Calvary Baptist Church Library at 501 West Main, Tupelo, MS 38801.
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