Published: September 16, 2009 10:08 pm      

Pearl Crocker

Pearl Crocker, 84, of Palestine, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009 in Palestine. She was born Dec. 1, 1924 in Mountain Park, Okla. to her late parents, William Robert Stephenson and Roxie Lee Brackeen Stephenson.

Pearl was a former longtime resident of Baytown, received an LVN degree from Lee College and worked at Gulf Coast Hospital and San Jacinto Methodist Hospital before retiring. She also had worked at Weingarten’s. She was a former longtime member of First Baptist Church in Baytown and was a member of the Cedar Bayou Lodge No. 11 Order of the Eastern Star.

Mrs. Crocker was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Swin Crocker; and a daughter, Claudine Dean.

Survivors include her daughters, Katherine Cofer of Gilmer, Judy Barrilleaux and her husband Lionel of Buffalo, and Nelda Davis and her husband Mike of Jewett; one stepson; two stepdaughters; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends.

Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009 at Navarre Funeral Home with the Rev. Casey D. Froelich officiating and a graveside service will be held at 4 p.m. at the Kilgore City Cemetery in Kilgore.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 18, 2009 at the funeral home.

To view her online obituary, or post a tribute to her family, go to www.navarrefuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are under the direction of Navarre Funeral Home & Cremation Service, 2444 Rollingbrook Drive, Baytown, Texas 77521, (281)422-8111.