Daughter of Jesse Charles Crumbley Sr. and Maude Mallard Crumbley. She attended Waters Avenue School, 35th Street Junior High and Savannah High School and graduated in 1940 from Armstrong Junior College. At the University of Georgia she was member of the honor societies Phi Upsilon Omicron and Phi Kappa Phi and graduated in 1942 with a degree in Home Economics. She taught at Savannah High School during World War II. On January 1, 1943, she married Charles M Waldrop Jr. (Charlie). Following the war, they moved to Athens, GA where Charlie earned a degree in Pharmacy and she earned a Master's degree in Home Economics from the University of Georgia. They moved back to Savannah where they raised their children. They managed and worked in the family business, Crumbley's Pharmacy, for over 50 years.
She was a lifelong member of First Baptist Church where she sang in the choir, worked with and directed the youth department, and was a member of the Classics and the Friendship Class.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Jesse Charles Crumbley, Jr. and Thomas Carlton Crumbley; sister-in-law, Helen Boothe Crumbley; son, Thomas Jesse (Jake) Waldrop; and grandson Daniel Peter Harris. She is survived by her husband of 71 years, Charles Waldrop; three children, Lynn W Smithberg (Roy), Elizabeth W Harris (Peter), Jim Waldrop (Cynthia); daughter-in law, Vivian Waldrop; three grandchildren, Jessica Stepaniak (Alan), Graham Waldrop, and Jess Waldrop (Kelli); sister-in-law, Faye Crumbley of Savannah; cousin, Jacolyn Jones; nieces and nephews, Jess (Laura) Crumbley, Elizabeth Boothe Crumbley, Tom (Tiana) Crumbley and their children, Riley, Jayla, and Olivia, Dr. Jennifer Crumbley Dodson (Stan) their children, John and Jane, Boothe (Molly) Crumbley, and Margaret (Keith) Cable and their children, Aidan and Morigan.