Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
CRUM, JESSE LEE
Died Wednesday, Aug. 23, 1989, at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. He was 66, a native of Wilkinson County, Miss., and resident of Crosby, Miss. He was a retired Illinois Central Railroad engineer.
Religious services at Brown Funeral Home, Gloster, Miss., at 10 a.m. Friday, conducted by the Rev. Tom McCurley. Burial in Hopewell Cemetery, Crosby.
Survived by two brothers, David Franklin Crum, Gloster, and John D. Crum, Crosby; two sisters, Norvelle Crum Courtney, Gloster, and Merrit Ellen Crum Arnold, Crosby; nieces and nephews.
Preceded in death by wife, Minnie Lee McDowell Crum; and parents, John Thomas ``Tom'' Crum and Zora Haney Crum.
He was a past patron of Baton Rouge Chapter No. 163 of Order of Eastern Star, Baton Rouge Masonic Lodge, Baton Rouge Consistory and Knights Templar Shriner.
Friday, August 25, 1989