Class of 1981 Blanca Chang E:Mail nchls_gentile@yahoo.com & Class of 1984 Marlene Chang Best of wishes to your son cameron who i know you are very proud of cameron with your fathers work ethic and dedication your gonna be fine i cant wait to see you play on sundays in the nfl rember give it your alleach and every day dads smiling and watching you god bless you and your family cameron stay strong brother life is so precious here one day gone the next as im sure you can understandI remember him and Todd Picket sitting outside talking in front of the house ob Burgess Place. Still loved, still missed and very dear. The thoughts and prayers of the entire Pitt family are with Craig’s loved ones during this time of sorrow.”Heyward departed Pitt as an underclassman to enter the NFL draft and was the first-round selection of the New Orleans Saints in 1988. Heyward also suffered a stroke a few years ago that left him partially paralyzed. He passed away in 2006 at the age of 39. Craig "Ironhead" Heyward may you rest in peace. BACK IN 1983 I REMEMBER IRON HEADRUN ALL OVER JFK HIGH SCHOOL I WAS THERE HISTORYI was a big fan of Mr. Ironhead when I was young. Three years today, but never forgottenSunshine fades and shadows fall, but sweet remembrance outlasts all.GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN ALWAYS FRIEND IN MY HEART.Hey Craig just want you to no that I miss you dearly. He would always tell get out of here. I can honestly say that, on those occasions when I encountered Heyward early in his career, and then in the three seasons he played for the Atlanta Falcons (1994-96), during which I was the beat reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, I never once employed the Ironhead moniker. Rip1st man I ever saw literally move the pile and I mean literally!! Your partner in crime.. MERRY CHRISTMASYou would have been the first to call. Keith Dennis -Robinson Elizabeth Carter It became the common mode of addressing Heyward, a handle that replaced, for most friends and even casual acquaintances, his given name. Ten years ago, you could never imagine ‘Head’ in that kind of shape. My sincere condolences to your entire family.I had the pleasure of helping to care for you during your illness, there isn't a moment that passes by that you're not thought of, I see you in your children and God has blessed them all to be a blessing to othersI used to be a babysitter for the Hey wards when Cameron and Cory used to go to kids r kids in duluth ga. Mr Hey ward was one of the nicest men ever. Richard McCloud And on many days, when his mood was darkest after practice, you prayed he didn’t want to mess with you.Yet Heyward, who died on Saturday at the too-young age of 39, and after a seven-year battle with an insidiously recurring brain tumor, also possessed a rarely witnessed side that belied his famous nickname. When you loose someone like craig you loose more than a friend you loose your life long brother but he left me with many memory's. “The one thing he’s still got and that hasn’t changed a bit,” Hebert said at the time, “is that devilish sense of humor of his. Ironhead.It was a handle he relished, bestowed upon him back on the hardscrabble side streets of his native New Jersey, first because Heyward possessed one of the biggest noggins anyone had ever seen, and later because he ran and blocked like a man with, well, a head fashioned from iron. Thank you for sharing a part of your life with us. Thank goodness cornerback D.J.
If you knew him then you were blessed to have had a great friend in your life. And he was, in many ways, incredibly hard-headed. Mom & Dad #2 Love and miss u #34Gone but NEVER forgotten! He acomplished many great things in his life. Heyward then went on to play 11 seasons in the NFL for the New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears, Atlanta Falcons, St Louis Rams and Indianapolis Colts. R.I.P. But friends who had visited recently with Heyward, including one-time NFL quarterback Bobby Hebert, a former teammate in both New Orleans and Atlanta, certainly did not expect his death to come so quickly.
We played basketball at the P.A.L at an age so young they lowered the rims for us I used to think they HAVE to be kidding with craig we gonna kill these kids . Gerard (twin) noles Johnson stepped in his way, and somehow did what few defenders ever could on the field, stopping Heyward in his tracks. Stacie Phillips-Mathis Horoscope and astrology data of Craig. Bianca Chang-Gentile Jump to: navigation, search. Take care and God Bless. Craig "Ironhead" Heyward, a fullback for several NFL teams from 1988 to 1998, has died from a brain tumor. Hanging out in Hackensack.
But as his manner of death ironically reinforced — his supposedly impenetrable head invaded by a tumor known as a chordoma, a particularly pervasive cancer that wrapped itself around his brain, so much so that surgeons were unable to remove all of it during two procedures — Heyward wasn’t always an Ironhead.That was certainly the case in his final few years, when more than anything else, he wanted to live just to see his sons — particularly Cameron, the oldest — play football.
Your friend Kelvin. I just learned of his passing away today 1/7/07 when an announcer addressed his son playing for LSU in the National championship as the son of the late great Ironhead Heyward. Family-Placed Death NoticeCRAIG "IRONHEAD" HEYWARD Funeral Services for Mr. Craig "Ironhead" Heyward, retired NFL player, of Duluth, GA will be held Friday, June 2, 2006 at Victory World Church, 5905 but I did keep up watching him professionally. We spoke just a few weeks ago and I was struck by the typical upbeat ‘Ironhead’ attitude he displayed despite his health. my BROTHER!! May God bless all the people he left behind. Try as he might to make me say it, I never used it except in a story, and actually flaunted to him my acumen for verbally avoiding it.I felt, as I explained one day to a puzzled Heyward, that the nickname was borderline denigrating, like a reference to his hard-headedness.
THE HEYWARD FAMILY The memory that stays close to my heart is the time we all chipped in to buy our favorite record which became our theme song for that summer and many summers to follow. ...Passaic high class of "84"