{"id":333508,"date":"2026-08-31T02:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333508\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T02:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:04:55","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-like-a-mother-figure-beloved-school-crossing-guard-of-4-decades-dies-east-flatbush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333508\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Like A Mother Figure Beloved School Crossing Guard Of 4 Decades Dies East Flatbush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An East Flatbush community is in mourning following the death of a beloved school crossing guard.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Deborah Ann Haywood was an NYPD School crossing Guard for more than 44 years at the P.S. 398 Walter Weaver School.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Everybody loved her,&#8221; said Carean Johnson, Haywood&#8217;s niece. &#8220;She was like a mother figure to like a bunch of little kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Family, friends and her current and former students &#8211;some now 50 years old&#8212; gathered outside the school Sunday night to honor her legacy and release balloons.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Haywood died on Aug. 24, but the East Flatbush community is holding on to her memory and hoping to rename the street after her.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;You can see she had a lot of love around her, and she gave a lot of love,&#8221; said her daughter, Debbie Haywood, while pointing to a crowd of a few dozen people. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s just the most important part of this situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Deborah Ann Haywood\u00a0was a community fixture, a mother of six, who will be deeply missed, according to her daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An East Flatbush community is in mourning following the death of a beloved school crossing guard. Deborah Ann&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-333508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}