Hattie Mae Saunders

THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A PHENOMENAL WOMAN MOTHER HATTIE MAE SAUNDERS (HATTIE PATTIE) LIFE REFLECTIONS It was in the year 1925 and specifically March 13 when Tommie Ward Crutchfield and Emerson Crutchfield, Sr. welcomed into this world a beautiful baby girl who they named Hattie Mae. Her mother and father, Lula Beatrice her sister, Homer, Warren, and Emerson her brothers preceded her in death. With so much happening during the year of her birth, when Ford, the largest corporate employer of blacks in the US, 5,000 black employees, when Rhapsody in Blue was played for the first time, when Mercedes-Benz was formed, when IBM Corporation was founded in New York State, when Macy's had their first Thanksgiving Day Parade, when Calvin Coolidge became President of the United States of America and delivered the first radio broadcast from the White House, when Yz the Board of Examiners by her Pastor Rev. Darlene Singer Smith and Quarterly Conference to be formally recommended to the 153rd Annual Session of the Missouri Conference for the Consecration as Deaconess in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the year, 2007. Mother Hattie served at Parks Chapel A.M.E. Church with reverence to God and dignity. The Rt. Rev. John Richard Bryant was the Presiding Prelate of the 5th Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Before Mother Hattie's Consecration, Bishop Bryant stated: "The Deaconess greatest work is to pray for the church, pastor and members of the local church. If the pastor has a good Deaconess, they will share prayer concerns and be willing to go before the Lord. Where there is conflict in the church, the Deaconess will go before the Lord in prayer and continue until that situation works its way out." Mother Hattie was a season~d prayer warrior and an intercessor for her church and the Conference. Through Mother Hattie's prayers, healing will take place. Prior to her consecration, Mother Hattie served in every aspect of the church with the Joy ofthe Lord. She served as a Steward, Seasoned Saints Organization (Church Grandmothers), Stewardess, and she was proud to be a Missionary. She received and was crowned a)ewel in the Missouri Conference Women's Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She took seriously the ministry of missions. Hattie prepared the Lord's Table each 1't Sunday. With the deepest of reverence to God, Mother Hattie served with humility, love, and an unending desire to be the best she could be for the Lord. She took her ministry seriously, and was able to teach others the importance of service and the preparation of the Altar. God called Hattie home on May 30, 2011 where she was welcomed with open arms and great excitement by her mother, father, brothers and sister, baby, and many other family members and friends. She leaves to cherish her memory: Patricia Jackson, Scott Jackson, Christine and Ricky Nelson, Reverend Patricia Talton, William Talton, Shirley Jones, Catherine Davis, Beth and John Hartwig, Alisa Jones, Ernestyne Brown, Dorothy Powell, Parks Chapel A.M.E. Church membership, many other friends and relatives, and Reverend Darlene Singer Smith, who cared for Mother Hattie as a daughter would care for a mother. So as we say good night to Hattie Mae Saunders, know that she fought a good fight, she finished the course and she kept the faith. God has a place prepared for her in His Kingdom. To God be the Glory! .