Doris Faye Crossland

Doris Faye Crossland, 87, of Kansas City, Kansas, passed away Sunday, November 13, 2011, at Trinity Nursing and Rehab Center in Merriam, Kansas, where she had lived for the last few years. Funeral Services will be 1:00 p.m. Thursday, November 17, 2011 at the Chapel Hill-Butler Funeral Home, 701 North 94th Street, Kansas City, Kansas. Interment will follow in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. Friends may call from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. The family requests contributions to Odyssey Hospice; The American Cancer Society; or to The Kansas Association for the Blind, 603 SW Topeka Blvd, #304, Topeka, Kansas 66603.

Doris was born in Kansas City, Kansas on October 5, 1924 to Vernon Ray Green and Dora Ann Mills, and she was a lifelong area resident, marrying Harry Irvin Crossland on February 23, 1945, in Kansas City, Kansas. Doris worked in Fairfax during World War II, where she made bombers. She worked for Muehlbach’s Grocery Store for 20 years until 1970, before she co-owned and co-operated Cedar Lawn Tavern in Kansas City, Kansas, along with her husband. In later years, Doris worked for Turner Unified School District for 18 years, retiring as a Para-educator from Turner Middle School in 2005. In that same year, she received her high school diploma from Turner Unified School District through Quest – she was 80 years old. It was a great achievement for her, and her family was very proud of her. Doris was a member of the Retail Clerks’ Union, and she enjoyed quilting, reading, raising her grandkids, and in later years, listening to audio books.

She was preceded in death by her parents; 3 brothers, Arthur Green, Herbert Green, and Lawrence Green; 3 sisters, Bessie Smith, Edna Browne, and Frances Suberkropp; 1 son, James Raymond Crossland; and one daughter Beatrice Alice Hill. Survivors include 4 children, Diana Gayle Wittenberg and her husband Donald of Surprise, Arizona, Joyce Ann Pack and her husband Donald of Kansas City, Kansas, Charles Robert Crossland and his wife Barbara of Kansas City, Missouri, and Steven Bruce Crossland of Urbana, Missouri; 1 daughter-in-law, Linda Crossland of Lenexa, Kansas; 16 grandchildren; 27¼ great grandchildren; 6 great great grandchildren; 2 brothers, Cecil Raymond Green and his wife Lucy of Kansas City, Kansas, and Vernon C. Green and his wife Chris of Olathe, Kansas. To all those she leaves behind, she leaves a legacy of hard work and determination. Fond memories and condolences may be left at www.chapelhill-butler.com. Arrangements are under the direction of Chapel Hill-Butler Funeral Home, 701 North 94th Street in Kansas City, Kansas (913) 334-3366.