Dallas County Texas Archives Photo Tombstone.....McCrum, Richard Douglas 
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Cemetery:           Crown Hill Memorial Park
Name:               Richard Douglas McCrum
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RICHARD D. McCRUM
TEXAS
CAPTAIN INF RES
WORLD WAR I
MAY 7 1895       FEB 20 1955

Additional Comments:
Richard Douglas McCrum, born 7 May 1895 in Emory, Rains County, TX, the second 
child and only son to Dr. Samuel Stephen McCrum and Emma Lou Simmons.  He was 
one of the first flight instructors for the Army Air Corp at Kelly Field in San 
Anontio at age 19 prior to World War I.  He was shipped to France in 1919 where 
he served until the war ended.  Afterwards he served as a Captain in the 
Infantry Reserves at Camp Mabry in Austin.  Later he worked for the WPA in 
Dallas.  He married 1st Ginger Bender: one child Betty Jean McCrum b 1928.  He 
married 2nd Sara Isabel Thomson 25 Jan 1936 in San Antonio.  They were parents 
of two children: Helen Suzanne McCrum b 1941 and Richard Douglas McCrum, Jr. b 
1948.  He died 20 Feb 1955 of cancer in Dallas and was buried at Crown Hill 
Memorial Park in Dallas.

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