 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas 10 July 1933 GROCER Dies In His Store ___________ Ed Crutchfield, Veteran Sherman Business Man, Goes Suddenly ___________ W. Ed Crutchfield, 55 years old, veteran Sherman business man, died at 10:30 a.m. Monday while giving an order to a salesman at his store, Crutchfield's grocery, 203 South Travis street. Mr. Crutchfield was enumerating purchases to Joe Lankford, wholesale grocery company salesman, when he was stricken. A doctor summoned immediately announced he had died before the body struck the floor. He was removed to the Dannel-Scott funeral home in an ambulance. Others in the store at the time of his death were Herman Newton, clerk, and Claude Anderson, butcher. Mr. Crutchfield has complained of being slightly ill Saturday, according to store employes, but was not seriously sick. Funeral services had not been arranged Monday afternoon, pending advice from relatives. The body will be removed to the home to remain until after the service. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nancy Byrd Crutchfield; two daughters: Miss Mary Crutchfield, head of the Sherman high school history department, and Mrs. W. T. Burke of Dallas; three brothers, John Crutchfield of Durant, Joe Crutchfield of Sherman and C.M. Crutchfield of Springfield, N.J. Mrs. Theo Denton of Whiteboro, a cousin, also survives. A daughter, Nancy Byrd Crutchfield, died last June in an ambulance enroute to a local hospital after an illness of a few hours. She became ill while taking a music lesson. Mr. Crutchfield was born Jan. 14, 1878, in McKenzie county, Tennessee. He moved with his family to Sherman in 1886. With the exception of a short interval spent in Roswell, N.M., he had been a resident of Sherman since that time. He was married to Miss Nancy Byrd in Kansas, June 16, 1912, as the culmination of a romance which started in Roswell. In 1914 he entered business for himself, and since that time was in three locations in the Travis street block where his store is now located. He had been in the grocery business all of his life. He was a member of the Travis Street Methodist church.  A
petition was signed by 254 Sherman residents rqueting that the new
elementary school under construction on South Dewey Avenue be named in
honor of Mary Crutchfield. The School board approved the
recommendation and in September 1953, the Mary Crutchfield Elementary School opened. West Hill Cemetery Elaine Nall Bay ©2013 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |