HARLEN DAY "RED" CRAWLEY, 83, passed away on
May 20, 2003, in Arlington, TX after a long and rich
life, burial in Simpson Cemetery near Gorman, TX.
Harlen was born Nov. 9, 1919, to Newton & Bertie Kinman
Crawley in Eastland County, TX. He attended Ranger High
School at Ranger, TX three years but moved with his
family to Gorman before his senior year. He graduated
from Gorman High School and attended Tarleton, North
Texas State and East Texas State. he was a walk-on at
Tarleton, made the team and gained a scholarship. The
following years he became football and track captain.
Some kind of athlete was "Red Hoss" Crawley in the years
of 1937-39 and quite the man around campus! A World War
II veteran, he served as an Army First Sergeant in the
452nd Engineer Company in the Asiatic Pacific campaign.
Prior to retirement, he taught at Skyline High in Dallas
and worked at Collins Radio in Richardson and Temco
Aircraft in Grand Prairie. Harlen was known for his
congenial, generous spirit and devotion to family and
friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents & three brothers;
Jack Crawley, Purvis Crawley, & Jimmy Dale Crawley.
Survivors: wife, Rhea Price Crawley; children, Ken and Pat
Crawley and Carla Freund; grandchildren, Skip and Nisa
Crawley and Rebecca and Michael Freund; and brother, Covis
Crawley (RHS-1935).
BROTHER: JACK BOYD CRAWLEY was the son of Newton
Crawley & Mattie Bertie Kinman "Bert" Crawley of Ranger
and Gorman, TX. He was the younger brother of Covis W.
Crawley (RHS-1935) and Harlen Day Crawley (RHS-1936) but
graduated in Gorman. Jack Boyd Crawley did not attend
high school in Ranger because of the family move to Gorman
in 1936. He was a graduate of Southwest Texas at San
Marcos and attained his MS at the University of Houston
after he returned from the U.S. Air Force in 1945. He
taught and coached at Ector County High School for two
years before teaching and coaching at Permian in Odessa.
He retired there in 1982 and died Feb. 10, 1999.