Grace Belle Crump Boal

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral services for Grace Belle Crump Boal will be conducted Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. from the Hammon United Methodist Church with Rev. Jack Atkinson officiating. Burial will follow in the Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County under the direction of the Martin Funeral Home.

Grace Belle Boal was born November 18, 1900 in Mize, Georgia to R. J. and Georgia Sewell Crump and died Sunday, January 5, 1997 at the age of 96.

She came to Roger Mills County as a single young lady in the middle twenties to stay one year and remained the rest of her life.

She attended Bethany College in Lindsburg, Kansas and began her teaching career at Hammon where she taught Home Economics, History and Glee Club. She was also a class sponsor and principal.

She was married January 21, 1944 in Clinton to Merton Boal, a widower with some children. After her marriage, she left teaching and moved to his farm on Spring Creek.

She continued to teach piano lessons until she was almost 90 years old. She also became actively involved in community affairs, including Red Moon Culture Club, Eastern Star, C. and S. Club and a Bridge Club.

Grace was truly one of the pioneers of Hammon. She has experienced two wars, The depression, Korean Conflict, Vietnam along with many other crisis.

Throughout all this she adapted her ideas and remained optimistic about the future for herself and her students.

In the 70's they moved back to Hammon and bought the house of Jack Walton.

After her husband's death she devoted herself to her piano teaching and the church.

She belonged to the Hammon Methodist Church and was the church's pianist and organist along with teaching the Young Adult Sunday School Class for many years.

Survivors include one step son, Hoy M. Boal of Green Valley, Arizona; one step daughter-in-law, Jeanne Boal of Los Angeles, California; two grandsons, five great grandchildren; as well as several nieces, nephews and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one stepson, one stepdaughter, seven brothers and one sister.

The family requests donations be made to the Hammon Methodist Church Building Fund.

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