OBIT: Mrs. Jessie B. Crippen, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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>From the May 7, 1948 Winnfield News-American

Funeral Conducted Here Thursday for Mrs. J. W. Crippen

Leader in Religious, Social Affairs Dies in Alexandria


Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. yesterday for Mrs. Jessie B. Crippen,
55, of Winnfield, wife of James William Crippen, who died in an Alexandria
hospital at 11 a.m. Wednesday following a serious operation.  Rites were
conducted by Rev. Moses Mercer of Pollock and Rev. H. H. Stokes of
Winnfield, and interment was in the Winnfield Cemetery under the direction
of Hixon Brothers Funeral Home.

Active pallbearers were D. L. Durrett, F. J. McMurry, Clyde Taylor, J. W.
Kennedy, Melton Hightower, Ed Gassiott, J. A. Madden, and Eli Harrell.
Honorary pallbearers were G. C. Taylor, T. A. Ferrell, A. L. Smith, Ovey
Trahan, D. L. Hoffman, Prentice Cole and Bill Kelly.

Easter Star services were conducted at the graveside.

Mrs. Crippen was an active member of the First Baptist Church and of the
Palestine Chapter, O. E. S., of which she had served as worthy matron for
several years.  she was identified with religious, civic, and social
activities for many years.  

Besides her husband, she is survived by a son, J. J. Crippen, and a
daughter, Mrs. Willie Lasyone; her mother, Mrs. Rosa B. Douthey of Dayton,
Texas; four sisters, Mrs. Jewel Fenton of Dayton, Mrs. Mary Fowler and
Mrs. Vester Blue of Houston, Tex., and Mrs. Laura Kinney of Beaumont,
Tex.; four brothers, Roy Nicar of Port Arthur, Tex., Howard Douthey of
Devers, Tex., and Bill Douthey of Hobert, Ind.; and four grandchildren,
Jimmy and John Crippen and Martha and Ronald Lasyone.

Mrs. Crippen was born in Texas, March 18, 1893.

(Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)