Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Wednesday, February 11, 1970

CRUM, JOHN TOM

Died Tuesday in the Field Memorial Hospital, Centreville, Miss. He was 71, a native of Wilkinson County and a resident of Crosby, Miss., Rt. 1. He was a logger.

Body will be at Brown Funeral Home, Gloster, Miss., until time for services Wednesday at 4 p.m., at Hopewell Methodist Church, conducted by Rev. James Harper.

Burial will be in Hopewell Cemetery.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Merritt Crum; three sons, Jessi Lee Crum, Baton Rouge, David Crum, DeRidder and Jack Crum, Centreville; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Ellen Arnold, Crosby, Miss., and Mrs. Narvelle Courtney, Baton Rouge; three brothers, Tully Crum, Baton Rouge, Farley Crum, Canton, Miss., and Dudley Crum, Columbia, Miss., and 13 grandchildren.