Naman L Crowe

While a student at UTC he wrote poetry and short stories for the university’s Literary Magazine. He cut his college career short to take a reporting job at the Chattanooga Times. He loved being a reporter. Later in life, he worked as a reporter and columnist for the Summerville News and for the Dalton Daily Citizen. In 2001, he received a Georgia Press Association First Place award for Feature Writing and an award from The Professional Association of Georgia Educators for “Excellence in Education Reporting”.

I recent years, Mr. Crowe wrote daily posts on Facebook, fierce political opinions interspersed with poems, humor and charming stories of his growing up days.

He never failed to answer readers who disagreed with his politics; he was a fighter fighting for a better world. He considered Trumpism a mortal threat to American democracy and called out the racism, cruelty and lies that undergird it. He pulled no punches. He held up the dream of a world where peace and love were the guiding principles and where real compassion for the poor and suffering would produce real justice and real equality.

Mr. Crowe was born in Atlanta and grew up in Lakeview, GA. He graduated from Lakeview High School in 1963, and was a Golden Gloves boxing champion as a sophomore.

He was a U. S. Army combat veteran, having served as a helicopter crew chief in Vietnam, with the rank of Specialist E5. He was awarded the Air Medal in 1968 for having flown more than 25 aerial missions over hostile territory in a single month.

Mr. Crowe is predeceased by his father, Albert A. Crowe; his mother, Fannie Lee Owens, who lived with him the last 30 years of her life; and his youngest sister, Theora Guest.

Survivors include his wife, Carol Lewis Crowe, of Ferger Place, Chattanooga; his brother and sister-in-law, Lee and Darrene Crowe; two sisters, Carnella Cunningham and Emenda Crowe; nine nieces and nephews and 18 great-nieces and great-nephews.

Mr. Crowe will be buried with full military honors in the Chattanooga National Cemetery at 1:30 PM, on September 21, 2023.

Arrangements are by the North Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory, and Florist, 5401 Highway 153, Hixson, TN 37343.

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