CROSSLEY, Barbara Jean 1922-1999

CROSSLEY, WRIGHT, DARLING

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/21/2011 at 19:57:41

BARBARA JEAN CROSSLEY

OSAGE, IOWA - Barbara Jean Crossley, 77, of Osage, died Thursday (Dec. 16, 1999) at the Riceville Community Rest Home, of natural causes.

Memorial services will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 27, 1999 at Champion Funeral Home, Osage, with Mr. Gary Gilbert officiating. The body was cremated and there is no visitation.

Barbara Jean Crossley was born April 4, 1922, in Cherokee, the daughter of Don and Cledah (Wright) Darling. She grew up in Sioux City. She attended Drake University, Des Moines.

On June 14, 1941, she married J.W. Crossley. She was employed as a secretary at University of Iowa Hospitals. They lived in Iowa City, Detroit, Mich., Mason City, Roanoake, Va., and Osage. She raised and showed Arabian Horses and Collie Dogs. She was a member of the International Arabian Horse Association, Iowa Arabian Horse Association, past president and founder of the Iowa Collie Club, member and past president of the Mason City Kennel Club, member of Osage Music Club, Kappa Mu Epsilon Honorary Mathematics Fraternity, Order of Eastern Star. She enjoyed classical music and was an accomplished pianist.

The family suggests memorials to the Osage Library or Hospice of North Iowa.

Survivors include three daughters, Janet Crossley and her husband, Douglas Reding, Marshfield, Wisc., Diane Gurda and her husband, Michael, of St. Cloud, Minn., and Karen Hewitt and her husband, Dale, of Crystal, Minn.; two sons, Brian Crossley of Minneapolis, Minn., and Scott Crossley and his wife, Robin, of Buffalo Grove, Ill.; eight grandchildren, Elise and Matt Reding, Kris, David and Amy Gurda, and Adam, Paul and Jonathan Crossley; and one brother, Gordon Darling of Winterset.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Champion Funeral Home, (515) 732-3706.

[GLOBE GAZETTE, 12/19/1999]