CRAWLEY, Claude Clayton (Slim)

Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ Jan 3, 1936 p. 1 CLAUD CRAWLEY DIES SUDDENLY Popular Musician and W. P. A. Agent Suffers Fatal Attack After New Year Dance Tragedy trailed the heels of merriment early New Year morning. When Claud ("Slim") Crawley well known in Wickenburg as a musician and employment agent for the W.P.A. suffered a sudden hemorrhage after returning from a dance and expired in the arms of his wife at their home six miles west of town. He had been furnishing music for a New Years eve party at a ranch house, and reached his home after midnight. Feeling the attack coming on he went outdoors and there Mrs. Crawley found in a critical state. She was alone with him and little could be done to help his pitiable condition. He passed away murmuring the prayers which Mrs. Crawley repeated as she held the dying man. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at the Presbyterian church, conducted by Rev. Reese Scull, and interment took place in the Wickenburg cemetery. The services were largely attended and many floral offerings were received. The pall bearers were Jesse Youngblood, Dr. Kaiser, Earl Stewart, Ethel Wilmeth, J. F. Mapp and John Perrin. Claud Crawley was born in Mississippi March 26, 1892. For a numbers of years he followed the trade of oil derrick building and Wickenburg in 1928. His sunny rigging in Texas. He came to disposition and ability as a singer and musician made him a host of friends. He survived by his wife, Bertha, three sisters, living in Denver, Colo., and a brother in Houston, Texas