Jefferson-Hardin County KyArchives Obituaries.....Cralle, Lee Elza March 6, 1984
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Louisville Courier Journal
Lee E. Cralle Jr.,dies
Lee E Cralle., retired Louisville funeral director and businessman, died 
yesterday at Methodist Evangelical Hospital. He was 87 and lived at 542 
Primrose Way.
Cralle was former owner and president of Lee E. Cralle Funeral Home. He was one 
of six Louisville funeral directors who formed a corporation to build Highlands 
Funeral Home on Taylorsville Road in 1956. He was a retired director of the 
home, which opened in 1960. He was also past president of Funeral Auto Co.
In 1964, Cralle was instrumental in the building of a student center which 
bears his name at Georgetown College.
Cralle was honored in 1962 for serving 25 years as president of the Kentucky 
YMCA. During his tenure as president the organization inaugurated its Kentucky 
youth and United Nations assemblies for boys and girls of junior high and high 
school age.
He was a former member of the Commonwealth Life Insurance Co. and Masonic 
Widows and Orphans Home.
Cralle was a trustee for the Old Kentucky Home Council of the Boy Scouts of 
America and a member of the Rotary Club of Louisville, Big Springs Country 
Club,Executives of Louisville, Presidents Club of Georgetown College, Abraham 
Masonic Lodge 8, Scottish Rite and Kosair Shrine. He was a Navy vetran of World 
War I.
Survivors include a wife, Amy Marie Adlam Cralle, a daughter and four 
grandchildren. The funeral will be at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 2233 
Woodborne Ave. with burial in Cave Hill Cemetery

Additional Comments:
Cralle's father Lee E. Cralle Sr. was president of the board at the Masonic 
Widow & Orphans Home many years ago. He was responsible for the beautiful 
entrance at the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home.


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