Source: Adams Funeral Home
CROSBYTON (Special) - Services for Walter Crout, 78, of Crosbyton will be at 2 p.m. today in Crosbyton First Baptist Church with the Rev. Lester B. Griffin, pastor, and Jim York, minister of Crosbyton Church of Christ, officiating.Burial will be in Lorenzo Cemetery under direction of Adams Funeral Home of Crosbyton.
He died at 12:20 a.m. Tuesday in Crosbyton Clinic Hospital after a lengthy illness.
He was born in Denton. He married Ruth Pitts on Dec. 9, 1933, in Crosbyton. He was a farmer and owned a cafe in Lorenzo for many years. He was city marshal of Lorenzo and was a Crosby County Deputy. He operated a Gulf service station in Crosbyton and the Dairy Twist Drive-In in Ralls and was a security guard at Lake Ransom Canyon. He was an ordained Baptist preacher, and he was a member of Lorenzo Masonic Lodge and Lorenzo First Baptist Church. A son, Wannie A. died on Dec. 5, 1939.
Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Betty Upchurch of Crosbyton; a sister, Floyce Cox of Lubbock; two grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Don Handley, Bill Johnson, Wayne Donathan, Joe Hargrove, L.T. Starkey and Earl Atkins.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, October 14, 1992
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
CROSBYTON (Special) - Services for Ruth Crout, 78, of Crosbyton will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Crosbyton Assembly of God Church with the Rev. G.A. Van House, pastor, and the Rev. and Mrs. Roy Eason of First Assembly of God Church in Ralls officiating.Burial will be in Lorenzo Cemetery under direction of Adams Funeral Home of Crosbyton.
Mrs. Crout died Sunday, Nov. 2, 1997, in Crosbyton Hospital.
She was born Dec. 16, 1918 in Mountain View, Ark. She moved to Crosbyton in 1928. She attended school at Robertson and married Walter Crout on Dec. 9, 1933, in Crosbyton. He died Oct. 13, 1992. A son, Wannie Adrian Crout, died Dec. 5, 1939.
She owned and operated restaurants in Ralls, Lorenzo and Roosevelt.
She was a member of Lorenzo First Baptist Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Betty Upchurch of Crosbyton; a brother, Braxton Pitts of Biloxi, Miss.; two sisters, Alice Hunley of Michigan and Jewell Scallion of Mississippi; two grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, November 2, 1997
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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