Lester Eugene Crabtree

Tuesday, August 31, 1976, McCreary County Record
Submitted by: Lisa

Lester Eugene Crabtree, 49, of Stearns died August 25 at the VA Hospital in Dayton, Ohio after a lingering illness./  A native of McCreary County, he was born February 15, 1927 to the late Isham and Bertha Tabitha Crabtree. He was a factory worker and a member of the Antioch Baptist Church./  Survivors include five brothers, Laughton, Ashbury, Junior, Earnest and L.D. Crabtree; three sisters Emma Thomas, Mary Ruth Huff and Anna Rose Morgan. one sister preceded him in death./  Funeral services were held August 29 a the McCreary County Funeral Home Chapel by Rev. Lester Troxell. Burial was in the Lower Hickory Grove Cemetery./  Funeral arrangements were handled by the McCreary County Funeral Home.  

Tuesday, January 3, 1978, McCreary County Record:
Funeral services for Manuel Lawton Crabtree, Jr., 19, of Marshes Siding, fatally injured in a traffic accident on Ky. 92 at Smithtown on Christmas Day, were held Tuesday, Dec. 27, at 2 p.m. at McCreary County Funeral Home Chapel with burial following in Lower Hickory Grove Cemetery. the Revs. Oscar Worley and Arnold Roberts conducted services./  Kentucky State Trooper Regal Bruner investigated the accident but was unavailable for a report on the accident. His car reportedly ran off the highway./ Crabtree was born Aug. 30, 1958, to Manuel Lawton and Maxine Crabtree at Oneida but lived in McCreary County most of his life. He was a member of Sidney, Ohio Baptist Church. Besides his parents, he is survived by two brothers, Oscar Leroy and Michael Crabtree of Marshes Siding; two sisters, Nadine Longmire of Marshes Siding and Fayrene Wilson of Stearns; and a grandmother, Ada Wilson, of Hill Top. Two brothers and three sisters are deceased./  McCreary County Funeral Home arranged services.