Robert Crudup

Robert H. Crudup of Springdale passed to his Lord on September 25, 2013 in Springdale. He was at the Maples Nursing Home after living for seven years at the Arkanshire Retirement Village. He was born June 30, 1926 in Ozark, Arkansas to Early Pascal and Edith Ellen Mullens Crudup. Before the start of World War II, Bob was attending the Ozark School, a boarding school in southwest Missouri for young men. After the Pearl Harbor Attack on December 7th 1941 and after reaching the age of 16 in 1942 he obtained his mother's permission to drop out of school and join the Marine Corps. After training, he spent almost four years in the South Pacific Theater. Though hesitant to talk about it, he described several invasions he participated in including the island of Okinawa. After the initial landings his unit was charged with detonating Japanese military arms storage locations. After the war he returned to northwest Arkansas and married Kathleen Terry in 1946. Shortly afterward, they opened a grocery store on the Bentonville, Arkansas square next to the Walton's 5-10. His love of military service ever strong, he joined the Bentonville US Army National Guard. In 1953 the unit was mobilized to the North Korean Conflict. Upon his return from Korea he ran a dairy farm for several years. With a growing family he moved to Springdale and became manager of Hunt's Department Store on Main Street. From there he became an executive at Montgomery Ward's store in Fayetteville, then he moved to Ward's Little Rock store, and finally moved with the chain to Tampa, Florida. He retired after 20 years with Montgomery Ward. While in Springdale he was a Deacon at the First Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his wife Kathleen Terry Crudup and Sister Billie Joan Isom. He is survived by daughter Vickie Chalker and her husband Jim Chalker of Brentwood, TN and son, Robert F. Crudup and his wife Carrie Bradley Crudup of Wayne, PA, along with much-loved grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Graveside services will be 10:00 A.M. Saturday, September 28, 2013 at Oakland Cemetery in Fayetteville. Visitation will be 5:00 P.M. till 7:00 P.M. Friday at Sisco Funeral Chapel of Springdale. Memorials may be made to American Heart Association, 92 Sunbridge Drive, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703

Robert Crudup

June 30, 1926 - September 25, 2013