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Naomi J. Crookston

June 20, 1928 — January 2, 2013

Naomi J. Crookston, age 84, of Grants Pass, died Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at Royale Gardens Health & Rehabilitation Center.

A memorial service will be at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, March 23, 2013 at Hull & Hull Chapel. Private interment will be at Hawthorne Memorial Gardens. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements.

Donations may be made to a local animal protection agency or Audubon.

Naomi was born June 20, 1928 in Inglewood, California and was raised there. She attended Leuzinger High and after high school she went Beauty College. She moved to Provo Utah and met her future husband, Darrell (he went off to war) and worked at Military Depot during the war. They married in Oct. of 1945. Together they moved to Southern California and started a family, gradually moving north until ending up in Oregon. They moved from Santa Clara County California and built a home in Wimer. She lived in Rogue Valley since 1975. She worked as a dental assistant, bookkeeper, and in her final years she worked in the foster grandparent program at Allen Dale Elementary in Grants Pass.

She was a member of Audubon, Evans Valley Garden Club, Rogue River Civic Club, Piece Makers of Rogue River and Mt. Stars Quilters and a life member of the General Federation of Women's Clubs.

Her hobbies included quilting, painting, playing bridge and gardening.

Survivors include three daughters, Cherie, Marilyn, and Barbara all of Oregon; a sister, Joann Davis of California; a brother, Robert Lunceford of Utah; six grandchildren, Jason, Garrett, Candie, Matt, Rachel, and Scott and six great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by husband, Darrell D. Crookston, her mother Pauline Lunceford,
and a sister, Alice Haddon.

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