Danny Muncie Crayton

It was the happiest moment in the lives of Danny or D Boy’s parents when he was born. Danny M. Crayton was born to the union of Mr. Henry Crayton, Sr. and Mrs. Tenneh Koroma Crayton on February 13, 1992 at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. To his parents, Danny was a lovely child from infant to two years old. When Danny started to talk, he was always excited to call his mother, “mommy”. Between the ages of one and two Danny could talk. He could even count from one to ten but based on the lead of his parents, of-course. Sadly, when Danny reached two and a half years old his life began to change slowly before his parents' eyes. Danny started to move his head back and forth repeatedly. It was a sign that the life of this charming and talkative kid who loved calling his mother, “mommy” was deteriorating. At this point his parents began to seek for answers to Danny’s problem. They reached out to various medical experts for answers like any loving parents would do to resolve crisis in their child's life. As they constantly sought help without any clear diagnosis, at age five Danny was finally diagnosed with autism. From that point, Mr. Crayton began to travel with Danny to England for further medical opinions. At one time, he even left Danny in England with his (Danny) grandaunt to live there for a while because he wanted to see whether Danny situation could be reversed, but to no avail. Finally, both parents decided to bring Danny back to the States because they were uncomfortable with him being away from home. They took the responsible to care for Danny and later enrolled him into the Special Education Program in their area – in the HEB School District. Danny remained in the Special Ed Program until he graduated from Trinity High School. Fortunately for Mr. and Mrs. Crayton, Danny's maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mamanyon Koroma was living with them. She actually lived with them since Danny was eight months old and still does today. Mrs. Koroma was a tremendous help in helping to raise and care for Danny and we as family appreciate her greatly. Thank you, Grandma Mamanyon.

After twenty-one years of hoping that one day Danny would overcome his struggle with autism; on December 21, 2013 about 8:45 A.M. his (Danny) grandmother, Mrs. Koroma went to wake him up for breakfast as she normally did and found him unresponsive. She called his parents who were preparing to go to a funeral to check on him but Danny remained unresponsive as they too tried to wake him up. His dad performed CPR but to no avail. The paramedics were called but upon arrival they pronounced Danny dead or as we say, “Danny went home to be with the Lord”.

Danny is survived by his father Henry Crayton, Sr., mother, Tenneh Crayton, grandmother, Mamanyon Koroma, one sister, Jyarvo Crayton, five brothers: Alan Crayton, John Crayton, Nini Crayton, Franklin Crayton, and Henry Crayton, Jr., and two foster brothers, Aloysius Crayton and Antonio Crayton. Danny also leaves behind many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. We are sure that Danny died without committing sin against anyone and is now in heaven with the Lord. Surely, Danny M. Crayton will be missed by all of us.