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The RUSH SPRINGS GAZETTE, dated Thurs., Nov. 16, 1995
Obituary - Crabb
Jessie Pearl Crabb, 93, of Rush Springs died Saturday, Nov. 11, 1995, in Marlow Manor Nursing Home, Marlow.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13, in the Southern Baptist Church of Rush Springs with the Rev. Walter Knox officiating. Music was presented by Jeanie Griswold and Geraldine Hale.
Burial was in Rush Springs Cemetery under the direction of Calloway-Smith-Cobb Funeral Home.
Mrs. Crabb was born October 13, 1902, in Kosse, Texas, the daughter of Frank Mannin Watkins and Mittie Sarah Thompson.
She was married to William Flemon Crabb in Waurika on July 31, 1920. He died Aug. 26, 1957. She was also preceded in death by two brothers.
Mrs. Crabb had lived in Rush Springs since 1929 and worked in the Rush Springs school lunch room and was a housewife. She was a member of the Southern Baptist Church of Rush Springs.
Survivors include four sons and daughters-in-law, Leonard and Dorothy Crabb of Rush Springs, Billy and Joan Crabb of Rush Springs, Alton and Betty Crabb of Cox City, and Bobby and Cleo Crabb of Peonia, Colo.; a grandson whom she raised, Richard Crabb of Dallas; 13 grandchildren; 34 great grandchildren; four great great grandchildren; one sister, Ethel Riley of Wichita Falls, Texas; three brothers, Louis Watkins of Wichita Falls; Clarence Watkins of Henrietta, Texas and Chesley Watkins of Lindsay.
Grandsons served as pallbearers.
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She was born at the home of her grandmother and grandfather Thompson near Kosse, Texas.
Sometime after her parents had moved to Stephens County, Jessie, her mother, and first cousin Ona Lee Hightower, rode the train to Waurika, Okla. where they met her childhood sweetheart, William Flemon Crabb. Up from Texas, having ridden the train all night, Flemon and Jessie were married July 31, 1920 at Waurika, Jefferson County, Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma Death Certificate, File # 027992; Jessie Pearl Crabb
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The RUSH SPRINGS GAZETTE, dated Thurs., Nov. 16, 1995
Obituary - Crabb
Jessie Pearl Crabb, 93, of Rush Springs died Saturday, Nov. 11, 1995, in Marlow Manor Nursing Home, Marlow.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13, in the Southern Baptist Church of Rush Springs with the Rev. Walter Knox officiating. Music was presented by Jeanie Griswold and Geraldine Hale.
Burial was in Rush Springs Cemetery under the direction of Calloway-Smith-Cobb Funeral Home.
Mrs. Crabb was born October 13, 1902, in Kosse, Texas, the daughter of Frank Mannin Watkins and Mittie Sarah Thompson.
She was married to William Flemon Crabb in Waurika on July 31, 1920. He died Aug. 26, 1957. She was also preceded in death by two brothers.
Mrs. Crabb had lived in Rush Springs since 1929 and worked in the Rush Springs school lunch room and was a housewife. She was a member of the Southern Baptist Church of Rush Springs.
Survivors include four sons and daughters-in-law, Leonard and Dorothy Crabb of Rush Springs, Billy and Joan Crabb of Rush Springs, Alton and Betty Crabb of Cox City, and Bobby and Cleo Crabb of Peonia, Colo.; a grandson whom she raised, Richard Crabb of Dallas; 13 grandchildren; 34 great grandchildren; four great great grandchildren; one sister, Ethel Riley of Wichita Falls, Texas; three brothers, Louis Watkins of Wichita Falls; Clarence Watkins of Henrietta, Texas and Chesley Watkins of Lindsay.
Grandsons served as pallbearers.
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She was born at the home of her grandmother and grandfather Thompson near Kosse, Texas.
Sometime after her parents had moved to Stephens County, Jessie, her mother, and first cousin Ona Lee Hightower, rode the train to Waurika, Okla. where they met her childhood sweetheart, William Flemon Crabb. Up from Texas, having ridden the train all night, Flemon and Jessie were married July 31, 1920 at Waurika, Jefferson County, Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma Death Certificate, File # 027992; Jessie Pearl Crabb
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The RUSH SPRINGS GAZETTE, dated Thurs., Nov. 16, 1995
Obituary - Crabb
Jessie Pearl Crabb, 93, of Rush Springs died Saturday, Nov. 11, 1995, in Marlow Manor Nursing Home, Marlow.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13, in the Southern Baptist Church of Rush Springs with the Rev. Walter Knox officiating. Music was presented by Jeanie Griswold and Geraldine Hale.
Burial was in Rush Springs Cemetery under the direction of Calloway-Smith-Cobb Funeral Home.
Mrs. Crabb was born October 13, 1902, in Kosse, Texas, the daughter of Frank Mannin Watkins and Mittie Sarah Thompson.
She was married to William Flemon Crabb in Waurika on July 31, 1920. He died Aug. 26, 1957. She was also preceded in death by two brothers.
Mrs. Crabb had lived in Rush Springs since 1929 and worked in the Rush Springs school lunch room and was a housewife. She was a member of the Southern Baptist Church of Rush Springs.
Survivors include four sons and daughters-in-law, Leonard and Dorothy Crabb of Rush Springs, Billy and Joan Crabb of Rush Springs, Alton and Betty Crabb of Cox City, and Bobby and Cleo Crabb of Peonia, Colo.; a grandson whom she raised, Richard Crabb of Dallas; 13 grandchildren; 34 great grandchildren; four great great grandchildren; one sister, Ethel Riley of Wichita Falls, Texas; three brothers, Louis Watkins of Wichita Falls; Clarence Watkins of Henrietta, Texas and Chesley Watkins of Lindsay.
Grandsons served as pallbearers.
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She was born at the home of her grandmother and grandfather Thompson near Kosse, Texas.
Sometime after her parents had moved to Stephens County, Jessie, her mother, and first cousin Ona Lee Hightower, rode the train to Waurika, Okla. where they met her childhood sweetheart, William Flemon Crabb. Up from Texas, having ridden the train all night, Flemon and Jessie were married July 31, 1920 at Waurika, Jefferson County, Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma Death Certificate, File # 027992; Jessie Pearl Crabb
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The RUSH SPRINGS GAZETTE, dated Thurs., Nov. 16, 1995
Obituary - Crabb
Jessie Pearl Crabb, 93, of Rush Springs died Saturday, Nov. 11, 1995, in Marlow Manor Nursing Home, Marlow.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13, in the Southern Baptist Church of Rush Springs with the Rev. Walter Knox officiating. Music was presented by Jeanie Griswold and Geraldine Hale.
Burial was in Rush Springs Cemetery under the direction of Calloway-Smith-Cobb Funeral Home.
Mrs. Crabb was born October 13, 1902, in Kosse, Texas, the daughter of Frank Mannin Watkins and Mittie Sarah Thompson.
She was married to William Flemon Crabb in Waurika on July 31, 1920. He died Aug. 26, 1957. She was also preceded in death by two brothers.
Mrs. Crabb had lived in Rush Springs since 1929 and worked in the Rush Springs school lunch room and was a housewife. She was a member of the Southern Baptist Church of Rush Springs.
Survivors include four sons and daughters-in-law, Leonard and Dorothy Crabb of Rush Springs, Billy and Joan Crabb of Rush Springs, Alton and Betty Crabb of Cox City, and Bobby and Cleo Crabb of Peonia, Colo.; a grandson whom she raised, Richard Crabb of Dallas; 13 grandchildren; 34 great grandchildren; four great great grandchildren; one sister, Ethel Riley of Wichita Falls, Texas; three brothers, Louis Watkins of Wichita Falls; Clarence Watkins of Henrietta, Texas and Chesley Watkins of Lindsay.
Grandsons served as pallbearers.
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She was born at the home of her grandmother and grandfather Thompson near Kosse, Texas.
Sometime after her parents had moved to Stephens County, Jessie, her mother, and first cousin Ona Lee Hightower, rode the train to Waurika, Okla. where they met her childhood sweetheart, William Flemon Crabb. Up from Texas, having ridden the train all night, Flemon and Jessie were married July 31, 1920 at Waurika, Jefferson County, Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma Death Certificate, File # 027992; Jessie Pearl Crabb
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