This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crawford, Sparks, Thoman, Crandlemire, Williams Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BZ.2ADI/672 Message Board Post: Donald Richard "Don" Crawford, 62, went to be with his Lord Saturday, March 23, 1991 in a local hospital. He was a medical technologist with Smith Kline Reference Laboratory and the Sam Houston Hospital Laboratory. He was born May 13, 1927 in High Springs, Florida to Felix and Esther Sparks Crawford. During WWII he served his country in the Navy. On August 26, 1949 he married his beloved wife, Ruth M. Thoman, in Hays, Kansas. Mr. Crawford was a member of the Spring Branch Church of the Nazarene, serving as Head of the Ushers and on the Church Board. Don is survived by his loving wife of 41 years Ruth M. Crawford, Houston; his daughter Radonna Crandlemire, her husband C. Pitt, Brookline, Mass; his sons, Michael D. Crawford and his wife Cindy of Houston; Gregory A. Crawford and his wife Diana of Houston; two grandchildren, Shawn and Danielle. Sisters; Diane Williams of Jacksonville, Fla; Frances Crawford of Birmingham, Ala; and brothers Lamar and Robert Crawford, both o! f Dallas, Texas. Family visitation will be Monday evening from 6pm to 8pm in the Waltrip Funeral Home, 1415 Campbell Road. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, March 26, 1991 in the Spring Branch Church of the Nazarene, 1001 Campbell Road at 2pm. The Dr. Bill Coulter will officiate. Interment will follow in the Memorial Oaks Cemetery. -- from the Houston Chronicle, March 25, 1991.