Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Saturday, September 19, 1970

CRUM, MRS. MERRITT HANEY

Died 10:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 18, at Field Memorial Hospital in Centreville, Miss. She was 63 and a native and resident of Wilkinson County, Rt. 1, Crosby, Miss.

Body a[t] Brown's Funeral Home in Crosby, Miss., from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Religious services at 4 p.m. Saturday at Hopewell Methodist Church, Crosby, conducted by the Rev. H. P. Harper and the Rev. Riley Burton. Interment in Hopewell Methodist Cemetery.

Survived by three sons, Jesse Lee Crum, Baton Rouge, David Crum and Jack Crum, both of Centreville, Miss.; two daughters, Mrs. Naravelle [sic Narvelle] Courtney and Mrs. Merritt Ellen Arnold, Crosby; and 13 grandchildren.

She was a member of Hopewell Methodist Church.