McCrea obituaries, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

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McCrea, Samuel, Jr.         1 Mar 2013    Mar 2013    Jerry Nelson

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Obituary published in the Hammond Daily Star on:  3/1/2013

McCREA, SAMUEL, JR.
Samuel McCrea Jr. was born August 12, 1930 in Mobile, AL. He was one of 
eleven children and eldest of four sons of Florence Watts McCrea and Samuel 
McCrea Sr. of Mobile, AL.  He accepted Christ at an early age and was 
baptized at Delaware Baptist Church of Mobile. He attended Emerson Jr. High 
and later transferred to a private school, Allen Institute, which was 
privately owned by Josephine Allen.  His first year there he met his wife 
Alice Cooper of Ponchatoula, LA, in 1947. They fell in love with each other 
and had a wonderful relationship. Later he was drafted into the US Army in 
1951, leaving his love one behind. After going through basic training, he 
spent a tour of duty in (Europe) Germany. He was attached to 547th 
Engineers, building bridges across the Rhine River.  After his tour in 
Europe he returned to the U.S. February 1953. He then reunited with his 
sweetheart Alice O. Cooper and rekindled their love and married March 31, 
1953.  His next duty assignment was in Korea in 1955. Next duty assignment 
was in Germany in 1960 and returned in 1963. In 1967 he severed in Viet Nam 
and again in 1971. Upon his return one year later, February 1972, retiring 
twenty-one years with Honorable Services.  Samuel McCrea's life work was in 
the engendering, culinary, dietician, cook supervisor, receiving, culinary 
field inspector. With an MOS of 94B20 and a ZULU50. Instructor in all 
phases of food preparation.  His hobbies were bowling, gardening, 
landscaping his yards, loved working with various tools, and maintenance 
around their home.  They shared their life together until his death on 
February 22, 2013. They were married for 59 years and eleven months, and 
would have celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary on the 31st date 
of March 2013. They courted for six years before they married.  Samuel 
McCrea Jr. was preceded in death by his mother Florence Watts McCrea; his 
father Samuel McCrea Sr.; three sisters, Alice Blackman, Ceola Boyd and 
Mazie McCrea; three brothers, Otis McCrea, James McCrea and Napoleon 
McCrea.  He leaves to cherish his memory his loving wife of fifty-nine 
years and eleven months, Alice O. (Cooper) McCrea of Ponchatoula, LA; one 
son, Samuel McCrea III (Mamie) of Marina, CA; one grandson, Samuel McCrea 
IV, of Highpoint, NC; three sisters, Rosetta Peagler, Deloris Perryman and 
Florence Ann Harris of Mobile, AL, Shirley Minor of Compton, CA; four 
sisters-in-laws, Ethel Porter, Ponchatoula, LA, Marie Buchanan, Columbia, 
SC, Catherine Anderson, Hammond, LA, Bernadette Anderson, Indian Head, MD; 
and a host of nieces, nephews, and friends.  Family and friends will be 
received at Harry McKneely & Son Funeral Home in Hammond, Friday, March 1, 
2013, from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Visitation will continue Saturday, 
from 10:00 a.m. until the funeral service at 11:00 a.m. in the funeral home 
chapel.  Interment will follow in the Holly Gardens Cemetery in Hammond.
An on-line guest book is available at www.harrymckneely.com.

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