Submitted by  Beth Love

COLORADO CITY RECORD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1987

CROWNOVER

Funeral services for Frank Dewey Crownover, 89, of Loraine, were at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Kiker-Seale Chapel. Rev. Reta Richards, pastor of the Loraine First Methodist Church and Ralston Bruce, officiated. Burial was in the Loraine Cemetery under the direction of Kiker-Seale Funeral Home. Mr. Crownover died at 10:15 p.m. Sunday in Mitchell County Hospital.
Born July 21, 1897 in Burnet, he had lived in Loraine since 1905. He attended school at North Champion and at Loraine. He was a retired stock farmer, gin manager and was county commissioner for seven years.
He was married to Fannie Jarratt on April 20, 1939 in Loraine. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and was a member of the Loraine Masonic Lodge.
He is survived by his wife, Fannie; two sisters, Pauline Smiley of Loraine and Suda Hock of Colorado City; six nieces, Doris Henderson of Loraine, Susan McCarley of Colorado City, Mary Pitts of San Angelo, Zane Wilkinson of Ardmore, Oklahoma, Kay Lanceley of Frederksburg, Virginia and Billie June Rogers of Port La Voca; three nephews, Gail Crownover of Illinois, Ronnie Crownover of Denton and Norris Crownover of San Angelo.
Pallbearers were Ronnie and Norris Crownover, Cody Scott, Jany Herderson , Irvin and Alvin Jarratt.