Bob Crookshank, 98, of Bryan, passed away on Friday, August 289 at the Crestview Retirement Center in Bryan. His family will receive guests during visitation at Callaway-Jones Funeral Home and Crematory from 10 until 11:30am on Wednesday, September 3. Military Honor graveside service will follow at 12:30pm in Rest Ever Memorial Park. Life tribute ceremony services are in the care of Callaway-Jones Funeral Home and Crematory. Herman Robert (Bob) Crookshank was born in Linneus, Missouri on June 7, 1916. He was the oldest of three sons born to Luther and Julia Crookshank. He graduated from Truman State University and the University of Iowa with a doctorate in Biochemistry and Biophysics. He served in the Army in World War II and retired as a Lt. Col. in the Army Reserve. Bob taught at the Medical College of Alabama, Texas Tech, and Texas A&M Universities. He served as Assistant Executive Secretary to the Division of Biology and Agriculture, National Research Council, and retired as a Research Scientist, Agricultural Research Service, and U. S. Department of Agriculture. He enjoyed more than a third of his life in retirement golfing daily into his nineties. His children, Lynred Hoepfner and her husband John of Bryan, Joyce Smith and her husband Steve of Boulder City Nevada, and Patrick Ferreri and his wife Andrea of Carrollton survive him. His grandchildren are Nikki Neighbors, Barbie Holt, Fritz Hoepfner, Robert Hoepfner, Marshall Hoepfner, Carolyn Ferreri, Isabella Ferreri, and Julia Ferreri with three great grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, please make a contribution to Crestview Retirement/ MRC Foundation at http://www.mrcaff.org/donatation-page.aspx or Covenant Presbyterian Church at 220 Rock Prairie Road, College Station, TX 77845.
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Bob Crookshank
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