Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

SBT 6/12/1995

Erma P. Crowel

March 10, 1918-June 11, 1995

GRANGER - Erma P. Crowel, 77, of Gumwood Road, died at 12:25 p.m. Sunday in St. Joseph Hospital, Mishawaka. Mrs. Crowel retired from Michigan National Bank after 21 years of service, was a former accountant for Crowel Farms, a former hostess at Some Place Else Restaurant, Niles, and former secretary for the superintendent of Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp.

She was born March 10, 1918, in St. Joseph County. On Oct. 29, 1939, in Bremen, as Erma P. Battles, she married Donald L. Crowel. He died Oct. 30, 1977. She is survived by three sons, Terry and Thomas, both of Granger, and Dr. Bill of Bremen; 11 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; three sisters, Jeanette Martin and Virginia Beehler, both of Wakarusa, and Ruby Geyer of Bremen; and a brother, Millard Battles Jr. of Kent, Wash.

She was a member of Harris Prairie Church of Christ, where she was a volunteer worker, a member of Eagle Lodge 435, South Bend, Elkhart Moose Lodge 599, Knollwood Assocation, and Kappa Psi Sigma Sorority. She was a former board member of the St. Joseph County Board of Zoning Appeals and former member of Indiana State Soil and Water Conservation Auxiliary.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Harris Prairie Church of Christ. Burial will be in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park. Friends may call from 1 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in Welsheimer Funeral Home North, 17033 Cleveland Road, South Bend. Memorial contributions may be made to the church, St. Vincent DePaul or American Cancer Society