Mrs.Cromwell taught English at M.G.Montgomery High School here in the Mobile Public School System for nineteen years.
She graduated from Old Town High School in North Carolina in 1940, and subsequently was employed by the Office of Strategic Services (now CIA) in Washington, D.C. She worked in the Japanese section where all messages, pertaining to that country and relating to the World War II effort, were decoded, deciphered and read after being intercepted at Arlington Hall in VA.
Mrs. Cromwell met Sgt. Howard Lindsay Cromwell in the Washington! .D.C. workplace. They married in the Methodist Church there. When the war ended, the couple traveled to New Orleans, LA, where Mr. Cromwell practiced his profession of Chemical Engineering, and then later in Mobile. Mr. Cromwell died in 1984.
Mrs. Cromwell, having attained her BSdegree from the University of SouthAlabama, began teaching English at Mary Montgomery High School.
Mr. and Mrs. Cromwell had one daughter, Carol Grace Cromwell Johnston. The family were members of Dauphin Way United Methodist Church.
Mrs. Cromwell is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Stephen G. Johnston; two grandchildren, Jason Cromwell Johnston, Esq., of Mobile, and Alice Lindsay Johnston Parker, of Birmingham; four great grandchildren, Mary Grace Parker, Lena Anne Parker, Owen Cromwell Johnston, and Jack Walker
Johnston; one sister, Nancy Jo Doub Shelton of Winston-Salem, NC; one brother, Eugene M.Doub of Winston-Salem, NC;and several nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Cromwell will be laid to rest beside her husband at Pinecrest Cemetery in a graveside service , Monday, March 23, 2020, 11:00am, conducted by The Reverend Rob Couch, pastor of Christ United Methodist Church.
In lieu of flowers the family suggest donations to a charity of your choice.
