Toy Kay Luther

Toy Kay Crocker Luther passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on the 30th of May 2025. Kay was born in Corpus Christi, Texas on the 18th of July 1940, to Martha Leona (Nonie) Crocker and Joe Mize Crocker. She attended W.B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi, and the University of Texas in Austin where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority. Throughout her life she kept in touch with her high school posse of girlfriends and Alpha Chi Omega sisters. At the University of Texas, she met the love of her life, Monroe Martin Luther and together they shared 63 years of marriage.

Kay loved the Lord and her Savior Jesus Christ and spent her life reflecting him through her gifts and talents. She was a classic homemaker and loved all aspects of that role from decorating her home to guiding her children through their sports, school activities, homework, and scouting commitments. She spent as much time building a warm foundation for her family at home as she did building them up in their faith. This was done by encouraging them in their endeavors and taking them to church choir, youth group and weekly church services.

Kay was a gifted and creative person who was constantly working with her hands, building, painting, sewing, knitting, needlepointing and sharing her many heirloom creations with her family. She was a talented seamstress, handmaking many of her children’s clothes. Before she passed away, she made sure each of her nine grandchildren received a hand knitted throw blanket in their college university colors with their initials for a graduation present.

She was a fabulous cook and talking recipes was her love language. It seemed that weekly she was making dinner for someone, a sick friend or a new mother at church. This gift and passion for cooking she handed down to her three children and many of her grandchildren.

Kay and Monroe loved to travel and take their children out of the city, whether that was train rides across the country, drives to National Parks or their ranch in New Braunfels with their friends and cousins. They wanted to expose their children to the outdoors as much as possible. Kay was a tennis player when she was younger and later became an avid fly fisherwoman. She and Monroe fished the Rivers of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and abroad in New Zealand. When Kay was blessed with grandchildren, she and Monroe invited them up for many summers to their cabin home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming to fish, cook, hike, ride horses and enjoy watching moose, eagles and the stars. In the winters they came to ski and enjoy the beautiful Teton Mountains. Among the favorite memories of their grandchildren were the times they spent with GiGi in Wyoming and waking up in the morning to the smell of bacon and her amazing breakfasts.

Kay and Monroe were founding members of Christ Presbyterian Church. Church became her second home and there her life sparkled with friendships. From her bridge group, knitting group to bible studies and her Cursillo Renewal Group, she had a life full of many friends. She was always growing in her faith through Bible studies and the company she kept and was wise and loving thereby a sought-after mentor to many.

They had many adventures together at home and abroad. One of which included being the founders of the first English business newspaper in Prague, Czechoslovakia called The Prague Post. It helped businesses and travelers and residents learn what was happening in Prague as new business entered the country following communism. For 25 years their apartment in Prague became a homebase for their ministry Angel Wings which gathered and supported key Christian leaders and missionaries throughout that region.

Kay is preceded in death by her parents, Martha Leona (Nonie), and Joe Mize Crocker and brother and sister-in-law Terry and Sugie Crocker, brothers Steven Crocker and Darryl Crocker, niece Debra La Nae Colchin, and granddaughter Nonie Kay Luther. She is survived by her devoted husband Monroe Martin Luther, Sr. and her family, Stephanie and Mark Hamilton, Marie Luther, Monroe Jr. and Aimee Luther. Her living legacy and the loves of her life; her grandchildren Henry Hamilton, Robert Hamilton, Michael Hamilton, Ian Price, Susannah Price, and Julia Rose Price, Monroe Luther, III and wife Abigail Luther, Grayson Luther, Cameron Luther. Her brother and sister-in-Law, Homer and Pat Luther, sister-in-law, Janice Crocker and many nieces and nephews. She will be remembered for her deep and abiding love of the Lord Jesus, her strength and courage through her illness and for the many ways she served others.

The family would like to thank Susan Cooley and Care Consultants Group, Siga Dallas, LVN Sandra’s Angels and Houston Hospice for their excellent care of Kay.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from four o’clock in the evening to six o’clock in the evening on Thursday, June 5th at Christ Presbyterian Church Houston, 8300 Katy Freeway, Houston, Texas in the Sonrise building. A Memorial Service will be conducted at eleven o’clock in the morning on Friday, the 6th of June at Christ Presbyterian Church of Houston immediately followed by a reception in the adjacent Main Street Hall.

In lieu of customary remembrances, memorial contributions may be directed to Christ Presbyterian Church Community Outreach Program (ESL and Summer Camp) 8300 Katy Freeway, Houston, Tx. 77024 or by selecting the icon below under “Donations”.

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