Martha Fay Cover Adams Crouch, the daughter of Lois Ray Scranage Cover and Lester Bowman Cover, was born in Taylor County, West Virginia on March 29, 1921. She graduated from Grafton High School at 16, from Fairmont Business College at 18, and was West Virginia State 4-H Champion in the category of Health in 1939. She began working with the Farm Security Commission when she completed Business College. At age 19, she was offered a Farm Security Commission position on the campus of North Carolina State College and made the daring move hundreds of miles away from home to Raleigh, NC. Fay fell in love with Raleigh and made it her home for the last 74 years.
During World War II, she served as a secretary for the US Public Health Services and shortly after the war she started a family with her first husband, John R. Adams. When her children were older, she returned to school and earned a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from NCSU. In 1973, she married her second husband, Col. Henry L. Crouch, a retired US Air force Officer and Professor of Mathematics at NCSU. They enjoyed traveling, dancing, NCSU athletics, and playing golf and bridge. Fay also enjoyed investing, reading, entertaining, gardening, and was a master seamstress. She was a member of Highland Methodist Church, the Samuel Johnston Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Evergreen Garden Club, and other community clubs and activities.
Fay was gracious, hospitable and kind even in the most challenging situations. She delighted in all of her friends and formed strong and long lasting bonds with all she knew. She deeply loved her church, her family, and all of God’s creation.
She is preceded in death by her husband, USAF/Col.(Ret.) Henry L. Crouch; her sisters, Madeline Postlethwaite and Marian Isom; and her brother, Hugh Weidanz. She is survived by her sister, Alicia Bonesteel; her bother-in-law, Noel Postlethwaite; her sisters-in-law Jerry Jaehnig and Ina Crouch; her children, Carolyn Adams Gatwood, Robert Noel Adams and his wife Michelle, and Kaye Laura Adams Yadusky; her grandchildren, Ashleigh Ellen Gatwood, Robert Aaron Gatwood, William and Katie Yadusky, Aleksandra P. Yadusky and Tracy Ferris, and Nina and Brent Sherrod; her great grandchild, Gia Alvarez; her nephews, Bobby and Johnny Postlethwaite and their families, and Lloyd and Millie Gurley and their family; her beloved in-laws in the Yadusky and Kissinger families; her caregiver and confidant, Angie Whitt; and so many dear friends.
A Memorial Service will be held at Highland United Methodist Church, 1901 Ridge Road, Raleigh, North Carolina on Monday, September 8, 2014 at 11:00 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Highland Methodist Church, the Raleigh Rescue Mission or the charity of one’s choice.
Burial will be in the US Military Academy Cemetery at West Point, New York at a later date.
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