WILLIAM RILEY CROOK
May 6, 1947 

VAN ALSTYNE - - William Riley Crook died Monday night at his home morth of Van Alstyne after an extended illness. Funeral services
will be held today, 5 pm at the Van Alstyne Methodist Church, conducted by the Rev. J. H. Vail of Whitesboro, assisted by the pastor,
Rev. Simpson.
Burial will be in the Van Alstyne cemetery, directed by Fox-Fanning Funeral Home.
Pallbearers will be Oran Sterling, Clyde Massie, Sam Gray, Bill ONeal, Jim Kemp, and Doyle Martin.
Mr. Crook was born in Liberty, Tenn. April 8, 1869. He was married Sept 2, 1894 to Miss Sarah Emaline Cipher.
He is survived by the following children: Mrs. Burrell Howell, Mrs. Clyde Cripps, Wesley Crook and Leslie Crook of Van Alstyne. Mrs. W. A. Goode, Gunter, Mrs. J. L. Olds, Weatherford, W. T. Crook, Beamount, Talmadge Crook, Houston and Mrs. Guss Sims, Daisetta; 28 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.
He is also survived by five sister, Mrs. Sarah Vandergriff and Mrs. Neal Parker of Van Alstyne; Mrs. Polly Hawker, Liberty, Tenn. Mrs. Lester Farmer, Rdland, Calif., and Mrs. Francis Bowman, Mansfield and one brother, Bob Crook, Kington, Okla.

SARAH EMALINE CROOK DIES AT VAN ALSTYNE
 January 26, 1954 

VAN ALSTYNE - Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in First Methodist Curch in Van Alstyne for Mrs. Sarah Emaline Crook, 82, who died at her home here Tuesday at 7:10 p.m. She was a native of Kentucky.
Rev. Harrison Baker of Dallas will officiate, assisted by Rev. Jesse Pugh, Christian Curch minister, and Emory Bryan, Methodist minister, all of Van Alstyne.
Burial will be in Van Alstyne Cemetery, directed by Fox-Flesher Funeral Home.
Mrs. Crook was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ransom R. Cipher. She was a member of the Methodist Church.
Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Burl Howell of Van Alstyne, Mrs. W. A. Goode of Dallas, Mrs. Clyde Cripps of Van Alstyne and Mrs. Guss Sims of Daisetta; four sons, Wesley and Lesley Crook, both of Van Alstyne, W. T. Crook of Beamount and Talmadge Crook of Houston; four sister, Mrs. John Moss of Chacota, Okla. Mrs. Bill Bonham of Bonham, Mrs. Bob Crook of Oklahoma and Mrs. Bob Haynes
of Dallas; two half-sisters, Mrs. Jim Murphy of Van Alstyne and Mrs. Clayton Kimbrough of San Angelo; 28 grandchildren 13 great grandchildren.