Kendra Darren Sawyer Haddock, age 45, passed away Wednesday, June 20, 2018, at UAB Hospital after an extended illness. Kendra was the well-loved art teacher at Mountain Brook Elementary School and a member of Lakeside Baptist Church.
She was a 1991 graduate of Vestavia Hills High School, obtained a Bachelors of Art and History from Samford University, and a Masters of Art Education from the University of Montevallo. She also studied abroad at Samford London Center. She established an Excellence in Learning Center, “The Leader in Me” for Mountain Brook Board of Education. She was elected Teacher of the Year in 2017.
She is survived by her loving husband, Brian Haddock, and son, Brian Wilson Haddock of Vestavia, her parents, Tom and Gale Sawyer formerly of Cullman and Vestavia, brother Eric (Heather) and their children, Emerson and Ava Kate, grandmother Charlotte Butler of Cullman. Mother in law Susan Haddock of Florence, sister in law, Jennifer King of Decatur, brother in law Andy Haddock of Columbia, South Carolina and loving nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles.
She was preceded in death by her grandparents W.W. And Ethel Sawyer of Hayden and Maxie Butler of Cullman.
The family received friends at Vestavia Hills Methodist Church for visitation and funeral on Friday, June 22, 2018, followed by burial at Florence City Cemetery. The family requests no flowers. Donations can be made to Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Research, or Brian Wilson Education Fund, Bank Independent Darby Drive Place, 1701 Darby Drive Place, Florence, Alabama, 35630.
