Paul Miller Crum Sr.

He is survived by his three children: Amy Vander Woude, MD (Doug) of Grand Rapids, MI; Paul M. Crum, Jr., MD (Angela) of Jacksonville, FL; and Catherine Crum (Bo Pham) of Washington, DC. He is survived by nine grandchildren: Kate, Tom, Tim, Maggie and Paul Vander Woude; Claire, Lanie and Julia Crum; and Maggie Pham. His faithful yellow lab, Radar, will live with the Crum family. Dr. Crum is predeceased by his former wife Julie Crum Fitzpatrick.

He was born on January 1, 1930. He was an NROTC scholar at Tufts University in 1948 but resigned that commission to accept a Congressional appointment from Pennsylvania to the United States Naval Academy where he graduated with the Class of 1953 as a member of the 20th Company. He was a four-year member of the crew squad at USNA. Upon graduation, he was assigned to Coral Sea CVA43 in the engineering department. He then served on Pritchett DD561 for several WestPac tours, and his final service as a line officer was as Executive Officer of Loyalty MSO457. In June 1957, he resigned his commission to enter the University of Pennsylvania as a medical student. Upon graduation as an M.D. in May 1962, he returned to the Navy and was recommissioned as a Lieutenant MC USN and assigned to the Naval Hospital, Saint Albans, NY, for internship. During internship he became interested in the fledgling Polaris submarine program and accepted an appointment as Medical Officer on Sam Houston SSBN609. Following a four-year residency in Urology at USNH Philadelphia, PA, he was assigned to Naval Hospital Portsmouth, VA, as staff Urologist and Chief of Urology. He established the residency training program at Naval Hospital Portsmouth. His final active-duty tour was at Naval Hospital Jacksonville, FL, as Chief of the Department of Urology. He retired from the Navy in August 1979 and joined the McIver Urological Clinic where he practiced Urology for the next 40 years. While at McIver, he served as the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Saint Vincent’s Medical Center and did three terms as the Chairman of the Department of Urology at that facility. He retired from active practice in June 2019. In 2020, he joined UF Health Jacksonville as an adjunct assistant professor where he practiced until shortly before his death.

Memorial services will be conducted at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 4129 Oxford Avenue, Jacksonville, FL, on Saturday, December 28, 2024, at 10 a.m. with interment at the U.S. Naval Academy Columbarium, in Annapolis, MD.