CROWDER, Deanna

The White Mountain Independent, Show Low, Arizona ~ 11/30/2012 Deanna Crowder Loving mother and grandmther, Deanna F. Crowder, 74, died Nov. 20, 2012, at her Seven Points, Texas home of lung cancer. She was born June 29, 1938, in El Paso, Texas to Marjorie HIlworth Norton and Marcus Norton. She met and married her husband of 50 years, William Tommy Crowder, becoming a military wife, traveling across the globe. The couple had three children. They settled in San Antonio, Texas, where she worked as a secretary and for QVC. She was active in Eastern Star and served as Worthy Matron from 1986-87. She and her husband moved to Show Low, Arizona, in 1995 to be with her family. There she worked and was very active in her church and volunteered at the local hospital. In 2008, she moved to Texas with her daughter and family. She loved butterflies, the outdoors, genealogy, traveling, crafting and being with her family. She was preceded in death in death by her husband, William Tommy Crowder, infant child and parents. She is survived by her sons, Brian and Darin (Stephanie); daughter Jennifer (Rob) Meelkop; four grandsons: Brandon, Joshua, Dylan and Jason as well as her sisters: Jeanne (Don) Hunsaker and Carole (Richard) Eason, Cathy (Bob) Bruce, brother Tom Ledet and many relatives and friends. Moorhead-Epps handled arrangements. (903) 880-0200.