Paul Crocker's Obituary
Funeral services for Paul Crocker, 92, of Longview, will be 2 PM Saturday in the Ford Chapel of 1st Baptist Church with Reverend Dewayne Beaty officiating. Interment will follow in Lakeview Ceme-tery with Masonic rites. Rader Funeral Home of Longview in charge of services.
Mr. Crocker died Thursday afternoon in a local nursing center.
He was born May 30, 1912 in Ada, Oklahoma. Paul was a retired maintenance engineer for the 1st Baptist Church and had also owned Rite-Way saw sharpening shop. He was a member of 1st Baptist Church and Longview Masonic Lodge #404, where he was a past master and chaplain.
He is survived by his wife: Dorothy of Longview; Son: Kenneth Crocker and wife Bobbie of Longview; Daughters: Billie McGuire and husband Larry of Grapevine, Jackie McCarthy of Ft. Worth and Anna Lohmann and husband Geoffrey of Garland; Eleven Grandchildren, fourteen Great Grandchildren, Sister: Billie Kate Cox of Longview and a niece: Mae Adkins of Longview and a number of other relatives.
Pall bearers will be members of Masonic Lodge #404. The family request memorials to the Masonic Home and School in Ft. Worth, Texas.
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