Crocker, Anna Lou Hightower

KILGORE - A celebration of a long and joyful life for Anna Lou Hightower Crocker, 
88, of Kilgore, Texas, will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 7, 2007, at Rader 
Funeral Home in Kilgore, Texas, with the Reverend Ralph Rudy and the Reverend 
Dudley Plaisance officiating. Burial will follow in Danville Cemetery.

Mrs. Crocker died Sunday, November 4, 2007, in Kilgore, Texas.

Mrs. Crocker, the widow of the late Luther Crocker, was one of six children born 
to John Leroy Hightower and Canzater Faucett. She married Luther Crocker, from 
Haynesville, La., on May 23, 1942, in Olympia, Wash., while he was in training in 
the United States Army. They had been married 59 years when he passed away in 2001.

Survivors include her children, Judy and Sam Litzenberg of Longview, Jane and Dan 
Brinkman of Austin, and Randy and Alice Crocker of Kilgore. Her grandchildren 
include Tracee Jones and her husband, Richard of Marshall, Tom Patterson and wife, 
Stefanie of Hallsville, Jeff Brinkman and Stacey Goldstein of Austin, Jennifer and 
Stephen Young and Kellye and Joel Martinez of Dallas, also Renee Pickett of Kilgore, 
and Andy, Brazie and Drew Adamez of Austin. Her great-grandchildren include 
Brittany, Hunter, and Spencer Patterson of Hallsville, and Corey Verner of Bonham, 
Texas.

She fought a valiant fight against the cancers that ravaged her frail body and, 
while appearing to be very delicate and fragile, she was, in reality very tough and 
put up a gallant struggle before the disease took its final toll.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to Asbury House in Longview 
or to Hospice of East Texas.

The family also wishes to extend their heartfelt thanks for the love and support to 
all of the staff and residents of Country Place Village where she lived for the past 
six years and to the Hospice of East Texas nurses for their tender care.

The family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. this evening, November 6, 2007, at the 
funeral home.

Please leave online condolences at www.raderfuneralhome.com.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 11/6/2007.