Frances S. Lindley's Obituary
VERA FRANCES SAVAGE LINDLEY JULY 21, 1916 – OCTOBER 12, 2014 Frances was born in Medicine Mound, Texas, a community close to Quanah so small that it is no longer there. She grew up out there in a big family, learning to play the piano and working at the local hospital. She moved to Dallas in the thirties, took some business school courses and became an office worker. She met and married Harry Crump, an up and coming young lawyer. When World War II broke out, Harry joined up and was a navigator on a B-24 that did not return from bombing Nazi-occupied Europe. She was one of the millions of Americans whose lives were devastated by the loss of their loved ones in that terrible war. After the war she met and married Robert Jack Lindley, Jr. and had two sons. They moved to the house on Sonnet Drive in 1959, where she lived until a few months ago. She and Jack were original members of Chapel Hill Methodist Church, where she played piano and sang in the choir. Jack died in 1967 and, now doubly widowed, she was left to raise two teenaged sons on her own, which was no picnic. Her older son Rod married and served in the Air Force. He and his wife Mel raised two fine sons, Matthew and Greg, while pursuing successful careers in electronic technology. Her younger son Kevin was a dancer in his youth, a political activist, married briefly, and found a career in seafood. She worked hard, helping her sister Jane after the death of her husband, paid off the house, and retired from York Air Conditioning as a computer supervisor. After her sons left home she started dancing. She loved ballroom dancing and made many friends, and although she outlived many of them, she recalled those years and those friends with great fondness. She lived to be ninety-eight years old. She survived strokes, the loss of much of her hearing and sight, and other infirmities of long life with stubborn determination and defiance. Her younger son moved back into the house on Sonnet Drive nine years ago when it was apparent she could no longer live unassisted. In other words she was able to live independently – and she was a most independent woman – until she was eighty-nine. She died peacefully in her sleep and without pain, a fact that comforts her family and friends in the sadness of her passing. The service for Frances will be on Friday, October 17, 2014 in The Wildwood Chapel at Restland Funeral Home at 12:30pm. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Restland Funeral Home and Memorial Park, 13005 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75238
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