Sarah Y. Crenshaw

Published 6:40 pm Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Y. Crenshaw were held on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017 at 2 p.m. from Mt. Olive Baptist Church.

Rev. Wilbert Jenkins officiated. Burial followed in the churchyard cemetery. Hudson Funeral Services of Greenville, Ala., directed. On Feb. 11, 1950, to the late Oliver Young and the late Helen Bryson

Crenshaw, a baby girl was born, and they named her Sarah Glinder Young.

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At an early age she joined the Mt. Olive Baptist Church. Later in life she met and married the late Mr. Charlie Crenshaw.

She departed this life in the early morning of Monday, Oct. 9, 2017 at  L.V. Stabler Memorial Hospital.

She was preceded in death by two sons, Lorenzo and Mathews, grandson, Devontaye “Trey,” three sisters and one brother.

She leaves to cherish her precious memories a son, Frederick (Jennifer) Crenshaw; daughter, Angelica Crenshaw, 11 grandchildren, Tomás, Khadarrius, Quindarrius, Heavenly, Ra’Angel, Ja’Maya, Ti’Aysha, Asia, Frederick, Sequoya and Brayden; three great grandchildren, Mackenzie, Karleigh and Khloe; sister, Jerry Dean (Marvin) Crenshaw; brother, Henry James (Jackie) Simmons; aunt, Beatrice Crenshaw, Mobile, Ala.; sister-in-law, Clara Mae Andrews, San Antonio, Texas; three devoted friends, Barbara Thicklin, Essie Waters and Maggie Arnold; and a host of nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friends.