Mary Melinda (Evans) Haywood |
| Posted 2008-02-23 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Daily Courier, Prescott, Arizona Friday, February 22, 2008 Mary Melinda Haywood went home to meet the God she always loved on Feb. 13, 2008, at 5:27 a.m. in Phoenix, Ariz. Melinda was born in Newcastle, Wyo., on Dec. 22, 1951, the daughter of Bill and Betty Evans. She spent her early years in Spearfish, S.D., and moved to Prescott with her grandfather and grandmother, Ray and Virginia Anderson, in 1967, where she graduated from Prescott High School in 1970. She attended Arizona State University, pursing an MSW degree in social work. She was one of the earliest members of the Unity Church of Prescott. Her greatest love was for her children and the hope for their future. She filled their lives with art and music, plays and dancing, flowers and literature, adventures galore, all to instill an appreciation of what was truly beautiful in this world. She was always there for them with just the right thing to say, the best advise, a good laugh or a good cry. She planted redwoods of spirit where many plant only poplars. She filled lives of those around her with a spirit many will never possess. She always believed that truth was the only really important thing in this world and that to stand up for what was right, irrespective of the cost, was the way of that truth. Her faith in a loving creator was immutable and unshakable in the face of any challenge, and she unselfishly shared that faith and herself wherever and with whomever she could. She will be missed by so many whose lives she sought only to make a little better, a little kinder, a little brighter. She is survived by her husband Michael; her children Adam, Patrick and Samantha; and her sister Donna, all of Prescott; brothers George of North Platte, Neb., and Larry of Vancouver, Wash.; and her grandson Robert of Phoenix. A celebration of her passing will be 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 25, 2008, at the Unity Church of Prescott, 145 South Arizona St. in Prescott. Her family extends its thanks to the kind professionals of the Hampton Funeral Home for their assistance in this difficult time. We all loved you, Melinda … we were blessed to have you in our lives. Information provided by survivors. |
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