Sallye

Crawford

Sallye Fields Crawford was born on October 17, 1944, to the late Billy and Clara Fields. She was the eighth of thirteen children. Sallye professed a hope in Christ at an early age at Poplar Springs CME Church in Shannon, MS, where she was a very dutiful servant until she couldn't be. Sallye was a proud member of the usher board. She did missionary work and whatever else was needed—not only for Poplar Springs, but also for Snowtown
UMC, where her children and grandchildren belong.

Sallye attended Mississippi Public Schools. She graduated from Fannie Carter High School and went on to Okolona Junior College.

Sallye worked all of her life, the longest stretch being decades at Super Sagless in Tupelo, MS, until she retired.

Sallye was married to the late Willie Otis Crawford, and to that union, four children were born.

Sallye leaves to cherish her memories: her five children that she always did all she could to help, Wanda D. Fields of Shannon, MS, Willie J. Crawford of Gulfport, MS, James Kevin Crawford of Shannon, MS, Broderick Crawford of Shannon, MS, and Joan Crawford of Shannon, MS; 14 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; a host of nieces and nephews; and five siblings, Frank J. Fields (Junetta) and Sheila Fields of Kansas City, MO, Juanita Johnson and Tishe F. Mallett of Chicago, IL, and Marilyn Davis of Jackson, MS.