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Robert Crudup
Robert H. Crudup of Springdale passed to his Lord on September 25, 2013 in Springdale.
He was at the Maples Nursing Home after living for seven years at the Arkanshire
Retirement Village.
He was born June 30, 1926 in Ozark, Arkansas to Early Pascal and Edith Ellen Mullens
Crudup.
Before the start of World War II, Bob was attending the Ozark School, a boarding school
in southwest Missouri for young men. After the Pearl Harbor Attack on December 7th
1941
and after reaching the age of 16 in 1942 he obtained his mother's permission to drop
out of school and join the Marine Corps. After training, he spent almost four years in the
South Pacific Theater. Though hesitant to talk about it, he described several invasions
he participated in including the island of Okinawa. After the initial landings his unit was
charged with detonating Japanese military arms storage locations.
After the war he returned to northwest Arkansas and married Kathleen Terry in 1946.
Shortly afterward, they opened a grocery store on the Bentonville, Arkansas square next
to the Walton's 5-10. His love of military service ever strong, he joined the Bentonville US
Army National Guard. In 1953 the unit was mobilized to the North Korean Conflict. Upon
his return from Korea he ran a dairy farm for several years. With a growing family he moved
to Springdale and became manager of Hunt's Department Store on Main Street. From
there he became an executive at Montgomery Ward's store in Fayetteville, then he moved
to Ward's Little Rock store, and finally moved with the chain to Tampa, Florida. He retired
after 20 years with Montgomery Ward. While in Springdale he was a Deacon at the First
Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his wife Kathleen Terry Crudup and Sister Billie Joan Isom.
He is survived by daughter Vickie Chalker and her husband Jim Chalker of Brentwood, TN
and son, Robert F. Crudup and his wife Carrie Bradley Crudup of Wayne, PA, along with
much-loved grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
Graveside services will be 10:00 A.M. Saturday, September 28, 2013 at Oakland Cemetery
in Fayetteville. Visitation will be 5:00 P.M. till 7:00 P.M. Friday at Sisco Funeral Chapel of
Springdale.
Memorials may be made to American Heart Association, 92 Sunbridge Drive, Fayetteville,
Arkansas 72703
June 30, 1926 - September 25, 2013