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Source:Forrest City Times-Herald, Forrest City, Arkansas

Dr. Charles E. Crawley	DoB: Oct. 10, 1921	DoD: Jan. 26, 1995	  Ref.: 199504	
	Dr. Charles E. Crawley, a medical doctor in Forrest City for many years, died this morning at the Baptist Hospital East in Memphis.  He had been in ill health for some time and hospitalized in a critical condition for over a week.
	Funeral services will be held Saturday in Memhis, and complete arrangements were not available at [ress time today.
	Dr. Crawley, a native of Memphis and a graduate of University of Tennessee Medical School, began his family practice of medicine in Forrest City at the Crawley-Cogburn Clinic on North Rosser.  Later, he and his associates built and operated the Forrest View Clinic on Lindauer Road for more than forty years until his retirement several years ago.  At that time he and his wife moved to 1811 Meadowgrass, # 5, in Cordova, Tennessee.
	Dr. Crawley is survived by two sons and two daughters all of whom were reared in Forrest City, and by a number of grandchildren, a brother, and a sister.
	A complete obituary with details of the funeral arrangements will be carried in the Friday Times-Herald.

Dr. Charles E. Crawley	DoB: Oct. 10, 1921	DoD: Jan. 26, 1995	Ref.: 199505
	Funeral Services will be held tomorrow at noon in Memphis for Dr. Charles E. Crawley, a former resident of Forrest City.
	Dr. Crawley, 73, died Thursday, Jan. 26, at the Baptist East Hospital in Memphis.  He had been in failing health for some ime and had been hospitalized in a critical condition for over a week.
	A native of Kentucky, Dr. Crawley was born Oct. 10, 1921, and was the son of the late Henry Keen Crawley of Uno, Kentucky and Josie Lee Ratliff Crawley of Scotts County, Kentucky.  He was reared in Memphis and was an honor graduate of Messick High School and the University of Tennessee School of Medicine.
	He began his family practice of medicine in Forrest City at the Crawley-Cogburn Clinic on North Kesser.  Later, he and his associates built and operated the Forrest View Clinic on Lindauer Road.  He was a doctor here for 44 years until his retirement in 1940.  He was preceded in death by his longest and closest partner, Dr. Harold N. Cogburn of this city.
	At the time of his retirement Dr. Crawley was honored by the community and the Baptist Memorial Hospital, and at that time he and his wife moved to the Memphis area where they established a home at 1811 Meadowgrass, #5, in Cordova.
	Dr. Crawley was instrumental in establishing Forrest City’s first county hospital, Forrest Memorial, and later was active in the opening and operation of the Baptist Memorial Hospital of Forrest City.  He served on the BMH Board and was a former Chief of Staff at the hospital.
	A member of the American Medical Association and the Alpha Omega Alpha, an honorary fraternity for medical students, Dr. Crawley was also a Fellow of the Family Practice Academy of America.  He was a Baptist, a former deacon and member of the First Baptist Church in Forrest City for many years, and in recent years was a member of the Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tennessee.
	On Nov. 24, 1945, Dr. Crawley married the former Nina Wadsworth of Bartlett, Tenn., and they are the parents of four children, two sons and two daughters.  His greatest joy and pride was found in his practice of family medicine and his large close-knit family.
	Dr. Crawley is survived by his wife of almost 50 years, Nina W. Crawley of the home in Cordova; by eight children, the natural children and spuses, including Attorney Carolyn C. Kessinger and her husband, Don Kessinger, of Oxford, Mississippi; Dr. Charles Eugene (Gene) Crawley Jr. of Texarkana and his wife, the former Allison McCollum of Forrest City, Janet C. Hyde and her husband, Dr. Randly L. Hyde of Trumann, Arkansas, and Dr. Michael Edward Crawley of Jonesboro and his wife, the former Rosamond Abel of Forrest City.  He is also survived by a brother, Dr. Henry Keen Crawley (Jr.) of Lindale, Texas; a sister, Mrs. Verla C. Pettit of Cordova, and by eleven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
	The funeral for Dr. Crawley will be held Saturday, January 28, at 12 noon at the Memphis Funeral Home on Poplar Avenue in Memphis, and burial will be in the adjacent Memphis Memorial Park.  Officiating at the serv ice will be Dr. Gene (Charles Jr.) Crawley, a son, assisted by Dr. Randly Lee Hyde, a son-in-law, Baptist ministers in Texarkana and Trumann, respectively.  Music will be by Mrs. Ron (Donna Abel) Shoemaker of Jonesboro, a member of the Crawley extended family, and the pallbearers will be Dr. Crawley’s eight grandsons, Keith and Kevin Kessinger of Oxford, Mississippi; Michael Jr., Craig, and Brad Crawley of Jonesborao; Charles III (Tad) and Marc Crawley of Texarkana; and Tim Hyde of Tennessee.
	The Crawley family will have visitation Friday night at Memphis Funeral Home from 7 to 9 p.m.
	They also ask that any memorials be sent to the First Baptist Church of Forrest City, the Downtown First Baptist Church of Texarkana, the First Baptist Church of Trumann, or the “Love Worth Finding” memorial fund of the Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova.

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Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas