Clyde C. Crews

He is survived by his wife, Sara Jane Crews. He attended Trinity Heights Grade School, then Sunset High School in Oak Cliff and graduated in 1928, during the great depression.

During his high school years he took music lessons, learning to play the violin and played in the Dallas Junior Symphony. He played the drums in the ROTC Band at Sunset High School and loved it so much he put together a group called "C.C. Crews and his Rhythm Crew".

They were broadcast over WRR Radio Station located at the top of the Jefferson Hotel in Dallas, as well as a Minneapolis station. They played for high school and college dances from Greenville to Ft. Worth and were eventually put on the stage at the Bison Theater.

He went to Metropolitan Business School which enabled him to get a job at the law firm of Bell, Goode and Howard, working for no pay for 6 months to prove himself.

This led to entering Southern Methodist University, where he was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha. He worked for the Pan American Production Company Land Dept., but entered the Navy in 1942 with duty in the South Pacific aboard the U.S. Barnstable.

After the war, he worked on the Paleface Ranch and Southwest Texas Wholesale Credit Assoc.

He later worked for Frost Bank for many years and retired as Vice-Chairman of the Board as well as a consultant to independent banks around San Antonio.

He was a valued and close advisor to many of his friends.

Mr. Crews was Past President of the San Antonio Country Club, The Argyle, Oak Hills Country Club, St. Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries, Alzheimer's Association and the Robert Morris Associates, Texas Chapter.

He was on the Board of Trustees of St. Luke's Lutheran Hospital, and was Past National Director of the National Association of Credit Men.

Clyde was a member of the San Antonio Founder Lions Club, a Mason/Shriner, a member of S.A.L.E. and Cystic Fibrosis. He was a member of the Majestic Club, the Plaza Club, Former Board Member of Texas Lutheran College and Lutheran General Hospital.

Mr. Crews also served as First Mayor of Balcones Heights. He was former Executive Vice-President of the Wholesale Credit Associates, Advisory Director of the Baptist Memorial Hospital Association and former board member of Ecumenical Center of Religion and Health.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Clyde Crews and Sarah Augusta Curnutte Crews.

Survivors: wife, Sara Jane Crews; children, Dr. Robert Coleman and wife, Maida, Ft. Worth, TX, Ronald Coleman and wife, Rita, Richardson, TX and Clyde Crews, Jr. and wife, Wendy, San Antonio; step-children, Cathy Caswell, Pflugerville, TX, Richard Furner, Houston, TX and Lisa Shoumaker, San Antonio, TX; grandchildren, Jim Coleman, Katy, TX, Judy Florence, McKinney, TX, Cindy Lewis, Dallas, TX, Laura Mills, Tucumcari, NM, Cynthia Flynn, Austin, TX, Chuck Flynn, Melanie Crutcher, Dallas, TX, Clay Childs, Chad Childs and Casey Childs, all of Ft. Worth, TX, Brett Caswell, Holly Caswell, both of Round Rock, TX and Riley Shoumaker, San Antonio, TX; step-grandchildren, John Frost and Lilly Frost; great-grandchildren, Nicholas Lewis, Christopher Lewis, both of Dallas, TX, Alex Mills, Stewart Mills and Connor Mills, all of Tucumcari, NM, Kyle Coleman, Kristen Coleman, both of Katy, TX, Natalie Crutcher and Rhys Crutcher, both of Dallas, TX, A.J. Florence and Bailey Florence, both of McKinney, TX, Clair Flynn and Valerie Flynn, both of Bedford, TX; sister, Jean Horsman, Novato, CA; nieces, Jackie Thomson, Novato, CA and Michelle Schoenhoffer, Wichita, KS