Digital Augusta

Augusta, Kansas

2010-11-24
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Title

2010-11-24

Subject

Crum, Dr. Collins "Conne"

Description

Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette

Creator

Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas]

Source

Augusta Historical Museum, Augusta, Kansas

http://augustahistoricalsociety.com

Publisher

Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA

Date

2010-11-30

Rights

In Copyright In Copyright

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Format

Clippings

Language

English

Type

application/pdf

Identifier

b16#049 2010



Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas], “2010-11-24,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 26, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/2145.
Text

Augusta Daily Gazette Tuesday, November 30, 2010



Dr. Collins ‘Connie’ Crum

Dr. Collins M "Connie" Crum, 98, Augusta, formerly of Eureka, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 in Wichita.
Memorial service 11 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, at the First United Methodist Church in Augusta.
Connie was born on July 10,1912 in Onaga, Kan., the first child of Jay Downs Crum and Blanche Day Crum. He attended grade school and high school in Onaga before attending Kansas State University. He was married on June 19,1938 to Marjory Kiger. They were married for 63 years prior to Marjory's death in 2002. Connie served in the United States Army during World War II and entered Optometry School in Chicago following his discharge in 1946. Upon graduation he moved his family to Eureka, Kan. where he practiced his profession for 33 years prior to retirement in 1981. Connie was a member of the 1st United Methodist Church. He was an active member of the Kansas Optometric Association and served as president of the Kansas State Board of Examiners in Optometry. He was a Eureka School Board, serving two terms as president. Connie was a member of the Masonic Order and a 50 year member of Midian Shrine. Although Connie enjoyed hunting and fishing his greatest pastime was playing golf. Through the years he had five "holes in one".
He played his last round of golf on Father's Day 2010 at age 97.
Connie is survived by: his daughter, Sara Barger and her husband, Phillip, of Clinton, Iowa; and his son, Dr. David Crum and his wife, Betty of Augusta; five grandchildren, Christina Klug of Austin, Texas, David Barger of Tucson, Ariz.,Victoria Parsons of Grand Rapids, Mich.,Christopher Crum of Alexandria, Va., and Chad Crum of Augusta; four great-grandsons, Sam and David Klug, and Mitchell and Reid Parsons; two sisters, Marjorie Ashley of Sun Lakes, Ariz., and Betty Huckaby of Lake of the Ozarks, Mo.; one brother, J.C. Crum of Onaga, Kan.
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to the First United Methodist Church of Augusta or the First United Methodist Church of Eureka.
Arrangements by Headley Funeral Chapel, Augusta.

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Original Format

Newspaper clippings affixed to loose-leaf notebook page