Crouch, Beatrice Geneva (Waits)

CROUCH, WAITS, PITT

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Date: 7/14/2005 at 18:49:41

Funeral services for Beatrice Geneva Crouch, 85, of Centerville, who died on Sunday, October 8, 2000, at the Seymour Care Center in Seymour, were held on Thursday, October 12, at Johnson-Lange Funeral Home. Rev. Jim Gubser officiated at the services. Interment was at Graceland Cemetery in Knoxville.

Beatrice was born on July 13, 1915, in Knoxville to Porter and Georgia M. (Pitt) Waits.

She married Zero Crouch in Muscatine on February 5, 1947.

Beatrice was employed at the Muscatine Button Factory prior to moving to Centerville where she and her husband owned and operated the A & W Rootbeer Drive-In.

She was a member of the Hospital Auxiliary, Woman's Club, Appanoose County Historical Society, and Order of the Eastern Star.

Beatrice was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; an infant son; a sister, Bernice Washburn; and a granddaughter, Shawna.

She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Addison and Irene Crouch of West Liberty, Ohio and Randy and Bobbi Crouch of San Diego, Calif.; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; two brothers, Glenn and Loren Waits; and a sister, Doris Mott all of Knoxville.

Memorials may be made to the Appanoose County Historical Society.

Arrangements were made by Johnson-Lange Funeral Home.

Knoxville Journal Express, October 18, 2000