Extracted from The Woodville Republican (Woodville, MS)
Saturday, April 13, 1935

ZORA HANEY CRUM

Mrs. Zora Haney Crum, aged 31, wife of Tom Crum of Rosetta, passed on to her final reward Wednesday, March 27th at 9 o'clock P.M., at the Field Memorial Hospital where she was carried only a few days before her demise and where all that could be done for her was done. Zora Crum was a Christian by faith and by works. She was an ardent attendant at church and faithful in her duties as Sunday School teacher. She was a member of the Methodist Protestant church, the church of her forbears, was received into the church and baptized by the Rev. Clyde Calhoun. She was active in the organization of the Homerhill Methodist Episcopal church and served as one of the Stewards until her death. When ever there was sickness, Mrs. Crum was ever ready to lend a helping hand.

For the past two years Mrs. Crum drove one of the Crosby school busses, and carried the boys and girls basketball and football teams on all their trips. She was loved and respected by all the children and teachers of the Crosby school. No basketball game was complete and no trip was just right unless the Mother of the team was along, for Mrs. Crum was Mother to the boys and girls on their trips, and she is sadly missed by them.

Mrs. Crum was a dutiful and faithful wife and mother, always doing her share in caring and doing for her family. In losing a faithful citizen, wife and mother, Heaven gains one more in the great throng. Funeral services were conducted at the Hopewell church with the Rev. McKeown of Woodville in charge, ably assisted by the Rev. Price of Gloster and the Rev. Delos Cassels of Gloster. Rev. Cassels eulogized her for her great Christian life and exhorted to those in the congregation that she would be one worthy of following. Services were completed at the Hopewell cemetery, where interment was made. Coach Brooks and the following boys of the Crosby basketball team acted as pall bearers: Harold Day, Boe Tilery, Willie B. Crum, Charlie Guraedy, Mason Seal, Fred Humes and Snooks Cutrer.

She is survived by her husband, Tom Crum, four sons, Jesse Lee, Silas Andrew, David and John Dale, and two daughters, Norvelle and Merritt Ellen; her father Mr. Silas Haney, and two sisters Mrs. Marcelle White of Woodville and Miss Merritt Haney of Laurel Hil. Mr. and Mrs. Crum had been married fifteen years and two children preceded her to the grave.

To the sorrowing family we extend sympathy in this, their hour of sadness.

--Rosetta Correspondent