Ms. Noretta Crowe

Mrs. Noretta White Crowe passed away peacefully on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, in Jackson, TN. She was 86 years old. Noretta was born on May 12, 1937, in Lexington, TN, to the late Clarence White and Lizzie Johnson Wade. She attended Lexington City School and Lexington High School. She became an Army wife when she married Korean War veteran Robert Harold Crowe on August 16, 1954; nine months later, on her eighteenth birthday, while stationed in Texarkana, Arkansas, she gave birth to the first two of four children: fraternal twins Bobby Harold and Ronnie Howell, often joking she got pregnant on her wedding night. She would have two more children, Cynthia Gail (while stationed in Honolulu, Hawaii) and Richard Lynn (while stationed at Ft. Wainwright in Alaska). They would live in Columbus, GA; El Paso, TX; and Fort Knox, KY, before settling back in Lexington. Noretta would go to work at Salant & Salant Garment Factory where she would become a supervisor. She would later work as a supervisor and retire from Johnson Controls. Noretta loved butter pecan ice cream and hosting Christmas Eve at her house for her family. She had many hobbies. She loved arts and crafts. She especially enjoyed creating custom shirts for her grandkids, artfully combining iron-on transfers and puff paint. She was an avid reader of romance novels and an armchair expert on crossword and wordsearch puzzles. She would play marathon games of canasta with family and friends. But perhaps her greatest pastime was entering her only granddaughter, Angela, into hundreds of beauty pageants and enrolling her in various dance classes during her youth. She would never admit it, but Angela was her favorite, the apple of her eye. Mrs. Crowe was preceded in death by her husband of sixty-three years, Mr. Robert Crowe; two sons, Richard and Ronnie; her daughter Cynthia Tristan; her one brother Billy White; and one sister Juanita Ferguson. Survivors include her son Bobby Crowe (Charlotte Diane); her son-in-law Hector Tristan; her eight grandchildren: Kevin, Joey, Timothy, Jeremy, Angela, Garrett, and Jarred Crowe and Tyler Tristan; six great grandchildren: Easton, Robby, Brooklyn, Jackson, Carson, and Aubrey; and one great-great grandchild, Jolene. Funeral services are scheduled for 1 p.m., Monday, July 17, 2023, in the chapel of Pafford Funeral Home in Lexington. Interment will follow in Sand Ridge Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Sunday, July 16, 2023, from 2 p.m. - 8 p.m. and on Monday from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Ms. Noretta Crowe

May 12, 1937 - July 12, 2023