Mary Lou Crosby

Funeral services will be held Wednesday December 8, 2010 at 2 pm at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church with pastors Matthew McKeller, and Monte Pentecost, officiating. Burial will follow at Bulman Cemetery.

Mary Lou was born February 14, 1923 in Hamilton County to Judge Clint and Mary Elizabeth White Crosby. She was a graduate of Jonesboro High School. After graduation, Mary Lou moved to Ft. Worth, where she worked for over 40 years in the railroad and transportation industry. After retiring from Johnson & Johnson, she returned to Hamilton in 1986 to build the home that she loved and lived in until the day she passed.

She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Jack M. Crosby, killed in World War II in 1944 and Judge Clint (Junior) Crosby, in August of 2008.

Mary Lou was a woman of great faith. She was a devoted member of the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, teaching Sunday school to the young and young at heart for many years. Mary Lou had a great love for her family and friends. She was a very compassionate lady yet had a quick wit about her which could put a smile on anyone’s face. She rarely met a stranger and would know and remember everything about you if you just told her your story. And the stories she could tell… Mary Lou was definitely the historian of the family. If there was one thing that Mary Lou loved more than anything else in this world, it was horses. All of her friends and family could attest to the fact that she was passionate about all things that had to do with horses and riding horses.

Mary Lou is survived by numerous cousins and a host of friends that she considered family. And while those of us left behind will miss her, we will rejoice in the fact that Mary Lou has been reunited with her loved ones. The Crosby’s are together once again…

Arrangements under the direction of Riley Funeral Home, Hamilton, Texas.