Crouch, Audrey 1910-2004

CROUCH, LILLY, HARRINGTON

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/21/2007 at 16:37:34

AKRON, Iowa -- Audrey Lilly Crouch, 94, of Akron died Thursday, July 8, 2004, at Akron City Convalescent Care Center.

Services will be 7 p.m. today at Schroeder Funeral Home in Akron. Graveside services will be noon Sunday in Riverside Cemetery. Visitation will be 5 p.m. until service time today at the funeral home.

Audrey Lilly Crouch was born Feb. 7, 1910, in Plymouth County, Iowa, the daughter of Stanley P. and Mabel (Harrington) Lilly. She graduated from Westfield (Iowa) High School and Morningside College in Sioux City. She was a school teacher and homemaker.

She married Lloyd E. Crouch on Aug. 17, 1933, in Hinton, Iowa. He preceded her in death on Nov. 20, 1998. She was a resident of Westfield, Iowa for 30 years, Hinton for 39 years and Akron for 18 years before moving to Le Mars, Iowa. She later returned to Akron and entered the Akron Care Center.

In her free time, she loved to cook, crochet, and in later years to work on genealogy of the family, but most of all spend time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She is survived by two daughters, Marilyn and her husband, Vernon Robinson of Le Mars, Iowa, and Kathleen Bjorklund of Maple Grove, Minn.; six grandchildren, Amy (Jeff) Cruzat of Bonney Lake, Wash., Lisa Macklem (Sue Johnson) of St. Louis Park, Minn., Kelley (Rob) Weida of Raymore, Mo., Christi (Randy) Ketelsen of Le Mars, Kevin (Wynette) Robinson of Valentine, Neb., and Kyle (Courtney) Robinson of Anaheim, Calif.; 16 great-grandchildren; three great-stepgrandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a grandson, Richard Robinson; a son-in-law, Eugene; a brother; and two sisters.

Honorary pallbearers will be her nephews and grand-nephews.

[Part of the Darrell Easton Obituary Collection; source: Sioux City Journal]