Mary Crabtree
Posted: March 15, 2019
MACON — Mary Patterson Crabtree, 87, died March 13, 2019, at the Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Service are 11 a.m. Saturday at the chapel of Cockrell Funeral Home Chapel in Macon with Bill Ross officiating. Burial will follow in Salem Cemetery near Macon. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service. Cockrell Funeral Home is entrusted with the arrangements. Mrs. Crabtree was born in Pontotoc County to the late Jasper Fulton and Daisy Sudduth Patterson. She was a graduate of Macon High School and worked at the Macon Pants Factory for 13 years. Later, Mary worked at Noxubee General Hospital in Macon for over 20 years until her retirement. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her son, Doug Stapleton; sisters, Leona Hildreth and Minnie Williams; brothers, Jack Patterson and Everette Patterson. She is survived by her husband, Theodore Crabtree of Macon; daughters, Christine Mullens of Baldwyn and Helen Richardson of Louisville; stepdaughters, Debbie Stapleton and Diane Tiffin, both of Macon; son, Randy Stapleton of Macon; stepson, Rusty Crabtree of Van Cleave; sister, Jimmie Patterson of Laurel; nine grandchildren, three stepgrandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, two step great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.