Rev. Eugene Watson Crump Obituary

SERVICES FOR RETIRED MINISTER

Services for the Rev. Eugene Watson Crump of 1134 Kney, retired Methodist minister, who died at 4:22 Saturday afternoon at Baptist Hospital, were held at 2 Monday afternoon at the Chelsea Ave. Methodist Church. The Rev. V. A. DeShazo and the Rev. Harold Eggenapergor officiated. Burial was in Forest Hill with National Funeral Home in charge. He was 72.

The Rev. Mr. Crump was born in Holly Springs, Miss., and had held pastorates in West Tennessee and Southern Kentucky since he went into the ministry 40 years ago. He attended the old Memphis University School, received his bachelor of laws degree at the University of Tennessee and received his bachelor of divinity degree at Vanderbilt University. He married the former Mary Moore of Memphis in 1901.

Retiring in 1940 while minister of the Springdale Methodist Church, the Rev. Mr. Crump had also been minister at Galloway Methodist Church, Whitehaven Methodist Church, Longstreet Methodist Church and Capleville Methodist Church. Outside of the immediate Memphis area, he had served in Clinton, Ky., Paris, Bells, Newbern, Humboldt, Covington, Brownsville and Lexington, Tenn.

He leaves three daughters, Mrs. James Lazenby of Memphis, Mrs. C. R. McGehee of Cleveland, Tenn., and Mrs. H. O. Coats of West Memphis.