Mrs. Marjorie Elizabeth Crotts

1926 - 2011

Marjorie Elizabeth Crotts, 85, passed away on July 13, 2011 in Mesa, Ariz.
Majorie was born June 15, 1926 to Date A. and Mary L. Tilton Houmes at the family farm in Hoopeston.
She attended Victor Grade School in Prairie Green Township and Wellington High School. She attended college in Chicago where she earned a degree in Stenography.
She was employed in the office of the Food Machinery Corporation, later becoming a farm wife in Prairie Green Township. She later moved to Danville and was a Civil Service employee of the Veterans Administration. She then moved to Champaign, where she worked for the Farmers Home administration as a loan manager and later working for the Internal Revenue Service as a tax auditor. She retired from this position and relocated to Mesa.
During her retirement she was an avid genealogist, traveling to various States, tracing her ancestors and searching records at county court houses. Often visiting grave sites and in some instances repairing and resetting markers and stones. She was a member of the Rossville Historical Society and the Merry Circle Club of the Planeville community.
She is survived by her loving husband, William Crotts; two daughters, Lisa Bigley and Mary Russo; two sons, William Crotts Jr. and David Crotts, eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She has a brother, George (Barbara) Houmes, of Sandia, Texas, and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister. 
Graveside memorial services will be presented at a later date at Floral Hills Cemetery in Hoopeston.
Brown Alkire Funeral Home in Hoopeston is assisting the family.