Wayne Crow

CROW, SMITH, PHILLIPS, HILDEBRAND, SPERA

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 5/18/2006 at 21:30:56

Winterset Madisonian
April 19, 1972

Wayne Crow of Winterset Dies

Wayne Crow of Winterset died last Wednesday, April 12 at Veterans hospital in Des Moines. He was 75 years of age.

Mr. Crow was a life-time resident of Madison county. He was born in Webster township Feb. 10, 1897. and spent most of his active life there, engaged in farming. From 1949 until his retirement in 1962 he was head custodian at Madison county Memorial hospital in Winterset.

His parents were A. D. and Jessie Smith Crow of Webster towndhip.

Mr. Crow was a veteran of World War I, and was a member of that organization and of the American Legiion and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

His church membership was with the First Baptist church of Winterset.

He was married in Webster township on March 3, 1920 to Opal Phillips, who survives him. He also leaves two sons, Nelson E. Crow of Clarinda and James F. Crow of Peoria, Ill.; a daughter, Mrs. Phillip Hildebrand of Des Moines; six grandchildren; two brothers, Glen and Charles Crow of Macksburg; and a sister, Mrs. Nellie Spera of Tucson, Ariz.

Funeral services were held Saturday from the Collins Funeral home in Winterset, conducted by the Rev. H. E. Borum, pastor of the First Baptist church of Winterset. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.