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Submitted: 9/14/24 • Approved: 9/16/24 • Last Updated: 9/19/24 • R1542526-G1542526-S3
Clay Cleveland
July 25, 1931 - Dec 29, 2007
Martha Sue
Jan 24, 1933 - Aug 30, 2021
*Obituary
Clay Cleveland Crews, 76, of Alexander, left his family and friends to be with the Lord on Saturday, December 29, 2007. He was born July 25, 1931.
Left behind is his wife, Sue, of 58 years, a daughter, Brenda Hill of Bryant, two sons, Ted and Danny Crews, both of Alexander, two grandsons, Ron Fleming of Little Rock, and Michael Pace of Alexander, and many friends.
Funeral service will be 12:00 noon on Monday, December 31, 2007 at Roller-Drummond Funeral Home Chapel (501)455-5800. Interment will be at Pinecrest Memorial Park.
Family will receive friends beginning at 11:00 a.m. Monday at the funeral home.
*Obituary
Martha Sue Crews was born on January 24, 1933, during the Great Depression. She learned that she was going to have to be a hard worker and through her upbringing, she understood the value of the little things in life. She carried out those values for the next eighty-eight years until August 30, 2021, when she was called home by the Lord to be with her family and friends.
She was born to Curtis and Robert Brock, Sr., in Moro, Arkansas and was the oldest of four siblings: Edward Carl "Buddy" Brock, Joyce Lee Brock (Sparks), Robert "Bobby" Brock, Jr.
She married Clay Cleveland Crews on August 27, 1949, they were married for fifty-eight years, until his passing. She had three children: Brenda Crews (Hill), Teddy "Ted" Mac Crews, and Danny Joe Crews and one grandson Ronald Newton "Newt" Fleming.
She worked as a kitchen manager and cook at the Alcoa plant in Benton. While working at Alcoa, she and her family opened and ran the Saline County Go-Kart Track.
She was always working and loved to cook. After retirement from Alcoa, she worked with her brother Bobby Brock and his wife Linda at Bobby's Dairy Bar on Arch St. in Little Rock and in North Little Rock when Bobby established Bobby's Cafe. She commuted to Alcoa and Bobby's Cafe with her daughter, Brenda, and they enjoyed many memorable conversations on the drive. Dinners on Sunday was when she loved cooking the most surrounded by her family.
She enjoyed bowling, fishing, playing cards, dominoes, and gardening. She also relaxed and watched television to rest. Her television had hundreds of channels but only three were used, The Western Channel (Gunsmoke), the channel with her soap opera (The Bold and the Beautiful), and Channel 7 (the news at noon and 5 pm). She was a happy woman with a laugh and a smile that was genuine. Looking back through photographs, she is smiling and laughing in almost every one. She was smart, proud and she loved her family dearly. You could trust her words to be wise and true.
There are too many people to list who will cherish her memory, but those who were closest to her at the end of her life include: her caring, loving, daughter and best friend, Brenda Hill (Crews); her son, Danny Joe Crews, in whose presence she would light up and smile; her son-in-law, Mike Hill, who she regarded as if he were her own son; her grandson, "Newt", they loved each other from the very start and were together at the end; and her great-grandchildren Colby Maness, Lyla Branscum, and Aurora Crews Fleming, whom she loved so much she would just smile and watch them and dote over how very sweet and smart they were every chance she got.
Visitation will be at Roller-Drummond Funeral Home Southwest on Monday, September 6, 2021, at 10:00 AM. The funeral service will follow at 11:00 AM. Burial will be in Pinecrest Memorial Park in Alexander, AR.
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