Miss Crabtree was a graduate of Convent of Mercy High School and was an apartment manager for the Mitchell Corporation before retiring as a bookkeeper from McGill-Toolen Catholic High School.
She was preceded in death by her loving mother, Irma Lucille Espalla Crabtree; her brothers, Joseph E. Crabtree, Bernard I. Crabtree, and James T.“"Buddy" Crabtree; her sisters, Mary Audrey Allenbach and Sr. Mary Johanna Crabtree, R.S.M.; and two nephews, Thomas Allenbach and Robert Allenbach.
Survivors include several nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, great-great-nieces, and great-great-nephews.
Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 A.M. on Thursday, January 3, 2013 from St. Joseph Jesuit Catholic Church. The family will receive friends from 9 A.M. until 10 A.M. Thursday at the Church. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Joseph Jesuit Catholic Church. Interment will be in Magnolia Cemetery.
