Margaret Crumpacker

MARGARET CRUMPACKER FORMERLY OF VALPARAISO, IN Dr. Margaret Crumpacker has died after a long illness. Margaret graduated from Valparaiso High School in 1954. She was born in South Bend, Indiana, June 17, 1936, lived most of her childhood in Indianapolis, moving to Valparaiso in 1951. She was the daughter of Mary and Harold Crumpacker who lived in Valparaiso for 50 and 43 years respectively. Margaret graduated cum laude from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a BA in music and premed. She completed medical school and her internship and residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Madison. After serving a short term medical mission in West Pakistan, Margaret was a Medical Missionary to Hong Kong with the Evangelical Free Church of America from 1968 to 1981. In Hong Kong, she practiced obstetrics and gynecology. Margaret returned from the mission field and completed course work and a comprehensive examination towards an MA in Counseling Psychology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois and a residency in psychiatry at Barnes Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri. She had a private practice in psychiatry in St. Louis from 1984-2001. During those years, she also served as a Psychiatric Consultant, Social Security Disability Determinations for the State of Missouri and as a Psychiatric Consultant at the Human Service Center in Red Bud, Illinois. A passionate lover of music, opera, theater, art and reading, Margaret was a supporter of Opera Theatre, St. Louis, the Reperatory Theatre of St. Louis and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Herself a soprano soloist, she recorded, dueting with tenor, David King. Her other great love was travel and she visited much of the world, even during her illness. Margaret is survived by her sister, Patricia (James) Scofield of California; niece, Ava Scofield; nephew, Daniel (Mary) Scofield; and grand nieces and grand nephews. She is missed by her family and friends in St. Louis and around the world. A memorial service to the glory of God and to remember Margaret will be held May 3, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. in the chapel at Bonhomme Presbyterian Church, 14820 Conway Road, Chesterfield, MO 63017. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society would be appreciated.