Crooks - Chester
CHESTER W. CROOKS
Source: Waveland Independent newspaper, Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana, March 17, 1955
Rockville -- Chester W. CROOKS, 65, who was a former trustee of Union Township, Parke Co. and who served two terms as a county commissioner, died suddenly Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. at a neighbor's farm. Born Nov 1, 1889, near Waveland, the son of Elmer and Eva Dooley Crooks, he was a member of the Otterbein UB Church. Survivors include the mother; the widow; Fern, Two sons, John of Rockville and Joe of Cincinnati; one sister, Mrs. Earl Brown of Jessup and two grandchildren. Funeral was conducted on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at Rockville and burial was made in Memory Garden Cemetery. -- typed by kbz