In 1930 she and her parents and brother lived in a house they were renting for $45 a month at 4817 Morningside Avenue in Sioux City, IA. They did have a radio. Her father worked as a building contractor. Also rooming with them was 18-year-old Eunice Thompson.
In 1940 she and her parents and brother lived in a house they were renting at 1115 36th Street in Des Moines, IA. Her father worked as an office manager for a private business, with an income in 1939 of $4205 for 51 weeks of work.
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Champion Funeral Home, GLOBE GAZETTE, 12/19/1999:
OSAGE, IOWA - Barbara Jean Crossley, 77, of Osage, died Thursday (Dec. 16, 1999) at the Riceville Community Rest Home, of natural causes.
Memorial services will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 27, 1999 at Champion Funeral Home, Osage, with Mr. Gary Gilbert officiating. The body was cremated and there is no visitation.
Barbara Jean Crossley was born April 4, 1922, in Cherokee, the daughter of Don and Cledah (Wright) Darling. She grew up in Sioux City. She attended Drake University, Des Moines.
On June 14, 1941, she married J.W. Crossley. She was employed as a secretary at University of Iowa Hospitals. They lived in Iowa City, Detroit, Mich., Mason City, Roanoake, Va., and Osage. She raised and showed Arabian Horses and Collie Dogs. She was a member of the International Arabian Horse Association, Iowa Arabian Horse Association, past president and founder of the Iowa Collie Club, member and past president of the Mason City Kennel Club, member of Osage Music Club, Kappa Mu Epsilon Honorary Mathematics Fraternity, Order of Eastern Star. She enjoyed classical music and was an accomplished pianist.
The family suggests memorials to the Osage Library or Hospice of North Iowa.
Survivors include three daughters, Janet Crossley and her husband, Douglas Reding, Marshfield, Wisc., Diane Gurda and her husband, Michael, of St. Cloud, Minn., and Karen Hewitt and her husband, Dale, of Crystal, Minn.; two sons, Brian Crossley of Minneapolis, Minn., and Scott Crossley and his wife, Robin, of Buffalo Grove, Ill.; eight grandchildren, Elise and Matt Reding, Kris, David and Amy Gurda, and Adam, Paul and Jonathan Crossley; and one brother, Gordon Darling of Winterset.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
In 1940 she and her parents and brother lived in a house they were renting at 1115 36th Street in Des Moines, IA. Her father worked as an office manager for a private business, with an income in 1939 of $4205 for 51 weeks of work.
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Champion Funeral Home, GLOBE GAZETTE, 12/19/1999:
OSAGE, IOWA - Barbara Jean Crossley, 77, of Osage, died Thursday (Dec. 16, 1999) at the Riceville Community Rest Home, of natural causes.
Memorial services will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 27, 1999 at Champion Funeral Home, Osage, with Mr. Gary Gilbert officiating. The body was cremated and there is no visitation.
Barbara Jean Crossley was born April 4, 1922, in Cherokee, the daughter of Don and Cledah (Wright) Darling. She grew up in Sioux City. She attended Drake University, Des Moines.
On June 14, 1941, she married J.W. Crossley. She was employed as a secretary at University of Iowa Hospitals. They lived in Iowa City, Detroit, Mich., Mason City, Roanoake, Va., and Osage. She raised and showed Arabian Horses and Collie Dogs. She was a member of the International Arabian Horse Association, Iowa Arabian Horse Association, past president and founder of the Iowa Collie Club, member and past president of the Mason City Kennel Club, member of Osage Music Club, Kappa Mu Epsilon Honorary Mathematics Fraternity, Order of Eastern Star. She enjoyed classical music and was an accomplished pianist.
The family suggests memorials to the Osage Library or Hospice of North Iowa.
Survivors include three daughters, Janet Crossley and her husband, Douglas Reding, Marshfield, Wisc., Diane Gurda and her husband, Michael, of St. Cloud, Minn., and Karen Hewitt and her husband, Dale, of Crystal, Minn.; two sons, Brian Crossley of Minneapolis, Minn., and Scott Crossley and his wife, Robin, of Buffalo Grove, Ill.; eight grandchildren, Elise and Matt Reding, Kris, David and Amy Gurda, and Adam, Paul and Jonathan Crossley; and one brother, Gordon Darling of Winterset.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
In 1930 she and her parents and brother lived in a house they were renting for $45 a month at 4817 Morningside Avenue in Sioux City, IA. They did have a radio. Her father worked as a building contractor. Also rooming with them was 18-year-old Eunice Thompson.
In 1940 she and her parents and brother lived in a house they were renting at 1115 36th Street in Des Moines, IA. Her father worked as an office manager for a private business, with an income in 1939 of $4205 for 51 weeks of work.
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Champion Funeral Home, GLOBE GAZETTE, 12/19/1999:
OSAGE, IOWA - Barbara Jean Crossley, 77, of Osage, died Thursday (Dec. 16, 1999) at the Riceville Community Rest Home, of natural causes.
Memorial services will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 27, 1999 at Champion Funeral Home, Osage, with Mr. Gary Gilbert officiating. The body was cremated and there is no visitation.
Barbara Jean Crossley was born April 4, 1922, in Cherokee, the daughter of Don and Cledah (Wright) Darling. She grew up in Sioux City. She attended Drake University, Des Moines.
On June 14, 1941, she married J.W. Crossley. She was employed as a secretary at University of Iowa Hospitals. They lived in Iowa City, Detroit, Mich., Mason City, Roanoake, Va., and Osage. She raised and showed Arabian Horses and Collie Dogs. She was a member of the International Arabian Horse Association, Iowa Arabian Horse Association, past president and founder of the Iowa Collie Club, member and past president of the Mason City Kennel Club, member of Osage Music Club, Kappa Mu Epsilon Honorary Mathematics Fraternity, Order of Eastern Star. She enjoyed classical music and was an accomplished pianist.
The family suggests memorials to the Osage Library or Hospice of North Iowa.
Survivors include three daughters, Janet Crossley and her husband, Douglas Reding, Marshfield, Wisc., Diane Gurda and her husband, Michael, of St. Cloud, Minn., and Karen Hewitt and her husband, Dale, of Crystal, Minn.; two sons, Brian Crossley of Minneapolis, Minn., and Scott Crossley and his wife, Robin, of Buffalo Grove, Ill.; eight grandchildren, Elise and Matt Reding, Kris, David and Amy Gurda, and Adam, Paul and Jonathan Crossley; and one brother, Gordon Darling of Winterset.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
In 1940 she and her parents and brother lived in a house they were renting at 1115 36th Street in Des Moines, IA. Her father worked as an office manager for a private business, with an income in 1939 of $4205 for 51 weeks of work.
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Champion Funeral Home, GLOBE GAZETTE, 12/19/1999:
OSAGE, IOWA - Barbara Jean Crossley, 77, of Osage, died Thursday (Dec. 16, 1999) at the Riceville Community Rest Home, of natural causes.
Memorial services will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 27, 1999 at Champion Funeral Home, Osage, with Mr. Gary Gilbert officiating. The body was cremated and there is no visitation.
Barbara Jean Crossley was born April 4, 1922, in Cherokee, the daughter of Don and Cledah (Wright) Darling. She grew up in Sioux City. She attended Drake University, Des Moines.
On June 14, 1941, she married J.W. Crossley. She was employed as a secretary at University of Iowa Hospitals. They lived in Iowa City, Detroit, Mich., Mason City, Roanoake, Va., and Osage. She raised and showed Arabian Horses and Collie Dogs. She was a member of the International Arabian Horse Association, Iowa Arabian Horse Association, past president and founder of the Iowa Collie Club, member and past president of the Mason City Kennel Club, member of Osage Music Club, Kappa Mu Epsilon Honorary Mathematics Fraternity, Order of Eastern Star. She enjoyed classical music and was an accomplished pianist.
The family suggests memorials to the Osage Library or Hospice of North Iowa.
Survivors include three daughters, Janet Crossley and her husband, Douglas Reding, Marshfield, Wisc., Diane Gurda and her husband, Michael, of St. Cloud, Minn., and Karen Hewitt and her husband, Dale, of Crystal, Minn.; two sons, Brian Crossley of Minneapolis, Minn., and Scott Crossley and his wife, Robin, of Buffalo Grove, Ill.; eight grandchildren, Elise and Matt Reding, Kris, David and Amy Gurda, and Adam, Paul and Jonathan Crossley; and one brother, Gordon Darling of Winterset.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
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