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Memorial Park Cemetery

Garfield County, Oklahoma


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© David Schram
Leland Beldon Crouse ~ Fredith Velma [Obert] Crouse
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Herbert Lee Crouse ~ Della Ruth [Barnes] Crouse


Obituary
Memorial Park
Garfield County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre


© Enid News and Eagle
Enid, Oklahoma
December 17, 2007

Della Ruth Barnes Crouse
April 4, 1914 ~ Decmber 2007


The funeral service for Della Ruth Barnes Crouse, of Oklahoma City, formerly of Enid, will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, December 18, at Brown-Cummings Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Jacob Snodgrass of Ames Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.

Della was born the daughter of Samuel Wesley and Ila M. Murphy Barnes in Corvallis, Oregon on April 4, 1914.

She began school in Hillsdale, Oklahoma, before moving to Enid and then to Phoenix, Arizona, for four years, attending school, and then returning to Enid.

Della married Clarence Charles Menz in 1931, who passed away 27 years later in 1958.

She married Herbert L. Crouse from Hillsdale, Oklahoma. Although the couple resided in Enid, they spent many winters as snowbirds in Arizona or traveling. Herbert Crouse passed away in 1998.

Della Crouse is survived by one daughter, Charlotte Turner and by her son, Charles Menz; by grandchildren, Virginia Thomas, Eugene and Brian Turner; by great-grandchildren, Abby Crews and Andrew Turner and Jamie and Matt Thomas, and by four great great grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society with Brown-Cummings Funeral Home serving as custodian of the fund.

Condolences may be made to the family online at brown-cummings.com


Obituary
Memorial Park
Garfield County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Sandi Carter


© Enid News and Eagle
Enid, Oklahoma
July 30, 2011

Fredith Velma [Obert] Crouse
May 26, 1918 ~ July 29, 2011


HILLSDALE — Funeral service for Fredith V. Crouse, of Hillsdale, will be 8 a.m. Tuesday, August 2, 2011, at the Hillsdale Bible Church, with Pastor Bob Courtney and Pastor Ken Wilcox officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Anderson-Burris Funeral Home.

A visitation for family and friends will be Monday evening from 7 to 8:30 at the funeral home.

Fredith was born to Fred L. and Ruth Moore Olbert May 26, 1918, at Homestead, OK, and died at age 93, on July 29, 2011, in Enid.

After her father was discharged from the US Army in World War I, she moved with her parents to a farm in the Kremlin community. She attended grade school at Nine Mile School and graduated as valedictorian from Hillsdale High School.

On August 19, 1936, she married Leland Beldon Crouse, the son of Elmer and Essie Crouse. They made their home north of Hillsdale on a farm. Leland died August 20, 1976.

Two sons, Leland Brent and Dan Bradley, were born to this union.

Fredith was a Christian and a member of the Hillsdale Bible Church.

She was a member of the Garfield County MB Home Extension Club for 50 years. She served as soloist, choir director, Sunday school teacher, deaconess and Bible School worker in her church fellowship. She served 10 years as a secretary of the Hillsdale Christian School Board of Education.

Fredith is survived by her two sons and their families: Brent and wife Pat of Hillsdale, their children Matt Crawford and wife Christine of Ardmore, Cara and husband Michael Hawkins of Prosper, TX, and Cassy and husband Kevin Deehan of Midlothian, TX, and Dan and wife Vicky of Hillsdale, their children Tory, Danielle, and Jennifer and husband Cale Grauberger of Enid; 11 great grandchildren; sister Edith Hutchinson of Enid; and a host of nieces, nephews and friends.

She was preceded in death by three sisters, Mary Shrewsbury, Francis Wilson, and Ella May Schultz.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Hillsdale Christian School or Hillsdale Bible Church. Condolences may be made at www.andersonburris.com.

(Submitted by family


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