Francis Crenshaw

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Francis Eugene (Gene) Crenshaw, 83, died Saturday Feb. 4, 2006, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston.

Born May 21, 1922, in Hannibal, Mo., to the late Oscar Benjamin and Effie Williams Crenshaw.

He served in the Army Air Corp. during WW II and Korean War as a medic. He was a self employed real estate broker.

Survivors include two sons and one daughter-in-law, Alan (Sandy) Crenshaw of Jackson and Mark Crenshaw of Miami, Fla.; one daughter, Linda Bollinger of Cape Girardeau; three grandchildren, Catherine (Robert) Kraus of Sandy Hook, Conn., Michael (Betty) Crenshaw of Jackson and Russ Bollinger of Cape Girardeau; and four great-grandchildren, Calvin and Andrew Crenshaw, both of Jackson and William and Ryan Kraus, both of Sandy Hook, Conn.

Friends may call from 10 a.m. until noon Tuesday at Ponder Funeral Home in Sikeston.

Funeral will be at noon Tuesday at the Ponder Funeral Home with Rev. Charles Lance, pastorial care pastor at Cape First Assembly of God Church. Interment will follow in the Veterans Cemetery at Bloomfield with full military honors.