Rose Mary Laun Crossman, 69, passed away September 13, 2018 in Sun City, AZ, peacefully and painlessly in her sleep, after a long battle with COPD, Congestive Heart Failure, followed by MRSA Pneumonia. She was a cancer survivor. She was born on June 4, 1949 in Syracuse, NY, where she grew up, attended school, and participated in Scouting. She earned a B.S. Degree in History from Brockport State University and an MEd in Elementary Education (Reading) from Arizona State University. She taught many grades and subjects for 11 years in Alaska’s North Slope Borough School District in the Arctic Inupiat villages of Nuiqsut and Utqiavik (Barrow), Alaska. She loved teaching First Grade and teaching Reading. Reflecting Inuit Native oral traditions, Rose Mary loved storytelling, translating literature into tales her students loved and treasured. She enjoyed history, reading, sewing, cooking, painting, online and offline shopping, movies, and TV murder mysteries. She authored Romance novels and short stories.
She was preceded in death by her grandmother, Lula “Gram” Lockwood, her father, Harold Arthur Laun, a welder, and her mother, Joyce Patricia Munson Laun. She is survived by her husband, James Edward Crossman, her son, James Harold Crossman, and grandson, Scott Jameson Crossman. She has two living sisters, Patricia Laun Bridge of Syracuse, NY, and Joanne Laun Richmond of Voorheesville, NY.
She will have a private memorial service at a future time and place. She chose cremation. Resthaven / Carr-Tenney Mortuary & Memorial Gardens, Phoenix, AZ, is handling arrangements. In lieu of flowers, please donate to your local public schools. Our family extends its thanks to the Center at Arrowhead, Glendale, AZ, and Dr. Richard Guthrie and his staff in the Department of Palliative Care, and the doctors and nursing staff of the IMCU Department, Banner Boswell Medical Center, Sun City, AZ, for Rose Mary’s final care.
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