Services for June Esther Crumb, 86, Allen, are 1 p.m. Monday at Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, the Rev. Buddy Drake will officiate. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery . The family will receive friends from noon Monday until 1 p.m. Monday.
Mrs. Crumb died Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008, at an Allen nursing home. She was born June 27, 1922 near Wetumka to Charles Walter and Ethel Leona Caton Clayton.
She attended school in five local school districts, graduating as a salutatorian from Hickory High School in 1941 and attended East Central State College before going to work at Hazel Atlas Glass Company.
She married T.A. Crumb on Oct. 18, 1942, in Denton, Texas. He died July 5, 1973.
She and her husband owned and operated Crumb's Auto Service of Ada for 17 years. In 1964, she became licensed as a nutritionist at East Central and served as director of food services at McCall's Chapel for 27 years, retiring in 1990. She was an active member of Free Will Baptist Churches in Oakman , Ada and Allen for 74 years. She served as a Sunday school and Vacation Bible School teacher for several years and worked with the Ladies Missionary Auxiliary.
Survivors include two sons, John Alton Crumb and wife Barb, Canton, Ill., and Clay Anthony Crumb, Allen; a daughter, T. Aola Parker and husband Mark, Allen; a sister, Evelyn Speake and husband Claude, Fort Worth, Texas; 10 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a daughter, Trudy Ann D'Veney of Ada, and a brother, John David Clayton of Arlington, Va.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada
