Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Bob Boyd, pastor, and the Rev. Billy Rammage, pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Clayton Memorial Cemetery by Hass Funeral Directors.
Mr. Crisp was born May 2, 1917, on the family homestead in Thomas to Ira Nain Crisp and Minnie Alice Cardwell Crisp. At age 13 he became a working cowboy when he helped drive a herd of horses to the 101 Ranch in northern Oklahoma. He married Irene Christian in 1939. They started their own ranch, Echoing Hoof Ranch, on the Springer Highway in 1953. In 1955 he helped drive a herd of 20 buffalo from the Oklahoma Panhandle to a newly built attraction called Fort Jordan, north of Clayton.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and siblings, Leona Spore, Eugene Crisp, Martha Wood, Kenneth Crisp, Rosebud Bonjour, William Abe Crisp and Wayne Crisp.
Survivors include his wife of 64 years; a daughter, Carleen Lazzell and husband, Rue, of Albuquerque; a son, Bill Crisp and wife, Pat, of Clayton; a brother, Norman Crisp and wife, Dean, of Amarillo, Texas; two sisters, Lorrene Rigsby and husband, Ret. Col. Cecil Rigsby, of Austin, Texas, and Loretta West of Littleton, Colo.
Ira Vincent Crisp is a Mayflower Descendant through his father. He is descended from five Mayflower passengers: James Chilton, Mrs Chilton, daughter Mary Chilton, Thomas Rogers and Richard Warren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Bob Boyd, pastor, and the Rev. Billy Rammage, pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Clayton Memorial Cemetery by Hass Funeral Directors.
Mr. Crisp was born May 2, 1917, on the family homestead in Thomas to Ira Nain Crisp and Minnie Alice Cardwell Crisp. At age 13 he became a working cowboy when he helped drive a herd of horses to the 101 Ranch in northern Oklahoma. He married Irene Christian in 1939. They started their own ranch, Echoing Hoof Ranch, on the Springer Highway in 1953. In 1955 he helped drive a herd of 20 buffalo from the Oklahoma Panhandle to a newly built attraction called Fort Jordan, north of Clayton.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and siblings, Leona Spore, Eugene Crisp, Martha Wood, Kenneth Crisp, Rosebud Bonjour, William Abe Crisp and Wayne Crisp.
Survivors include his wife of 64 years; a daughter, Carleen Lazzell and husband, Rue, of Albuquerque; a son, Bill Crisp and wife, Pat, of Clayton; a brother, Norman Crisp and wife, Dean, of Amarillo, Texas; two sisters, Lorrene Rigsby and husband, Ret. Col. Cecil Rigsby, of Austin, Texas, and Loretta West of Littleton, Colo.
Ira Vincent Crisp is a Mayflower Descendant through his father. He is descended from five Mayflower passengers: James Chilton, Mrs Chilton, daughter Mary Chilton, Thomas Rogers and Richard Warren.
Family Members
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Leona Jessie Mae Crisp Spore
1903–1971
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Eugene Victor Debs "Gene" Crisp
1905–1973
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Martha Elizabeth Crisp Wood
1911–2001
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Kenneth Edwin Crisp
1913–1997
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Edith Rosebud Crisp Bonjour
1915–2000
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William Abraham "Abe" Crisp
1920–1987
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Cecil Crisp
1923–1923
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Lorrenne Crisp Rigsby
1924–2011
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Sylvia Lorretta Crisp Hyatt West
1924–2011
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Cecil Wayne Crisp
1926–1992
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Norman Cardwell Crisp
1928–2019
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