Independent Enterprise
Wednesday, October 12, 1983
Services for George V. Crabb, 65, Anchorage, Alaska, formerly of New Plymouth, who died of natural causes Wednesday, Oct. 5, 1983, in Healy, Alaska, were conducted today in Shaffer-Jensen Chapel, New Plymouth, with Rev. Earl Traughber of the New Plymouth Congregational Church officiating. Interment followed in Parkview Cemetery, New Plymouth.
He was born Feb. 1, 1918 in St. John, Wash., the son of Bernard and Minnie Crabb. He was reared and educated in Washington. He married Evelyn Lee Williams on Aug. 1, 1941 at Aztec, N.M. They moved to New Plymouth in 1949 where he farmed. Mrs. Crabb died in 1973. He moved to Anchorage in Feb. 1975, where he was a heavy equipment operator for the Alaskan Railroad. He was a member of the Congregational Church in New Plymouth and a member of the Elks Lodge, Wallace, Idaho.
Survivors include one son, Patrick Crabb of Eugene, Ore., two daughters, Georgia Davis of Mt. Vernon, Ore., Diana Hoppell of New Plymouth, two brothers, Francis Crabb of New Plymouth, Kenneth Crabb of Clarkston, Wash., four sisters, Thelma Tewalt of Dayton, Wash., Gladys Ferguson of Waitsburg, Wash., Delores Wright of Eugene, Ore., Phyllis Julian of Prescott, Wash., and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son and a brother.
