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Notes: Earl Richard CROCKER |
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NOTE 1: Picture
NOTE 2: Obituary
NOTE 3: DEATH CERTIFICATE Number: 8600169 Last Name: CROCKER First Name: EARL, Middle Name: R Date of Death: Wednesday, January 29, 1986 Town of Death: BATH Age at Death: 58 Years.
NOTE 4: MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE: Bride Name: HACKETT DORIS M Bride Town/State: BATH, ME Groom Name: CROCKER EARL R Groom Town/State: EAST BRUNSWICK, ME Date of Marriage: Thursday December 5, 1946.
NOTE 5: AF RECORDS Honorable Discharge, 15 Sept 1953 Airman 1st Class, Korea, AF11177792, Regular Air Force, 5 years 7 months 18 days Re-enlistment, 4-11-51 Sampson AFB, NY to 9-15-53 Harlingen AFB, Harlingen, TX Spend 11 weeks in 1952 at F.E. Warren AFB, WY, Sup Tec School Civilian Job 1945-1948, truck driver, Warrens Grows Co. Brunswick, ME Education, 7th grade Hair: brown, Eyes: blue, Height: 5'9", Weight: 160
NOTE 6: NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: "Landlubbers like style of the Annie, Donna Halvorsen, Portland Maine Evening Express, August 22, 1980; "It was … my father's last day in Maine and a sail would be just the right send-off. He took on look at the 1850-vintage, 36 foot, two-masted schooner and asked the captain, who was sitting in a shack nearby,"How many times has this boat been out?" Captain Rodney E. Ross III, who might have taken our reservations as a slur on his seamanship, took the in good grace. "We haven't lost anybody overboard yet," he said. Moreover, the original "pinky" schooners on which this ship was modeled were built in days when there was no Coast Guard to rescue damsels at sea. We didn't know then that Ross was born in Bath, the heart of Maine's ship building industry, and that he had learned to sail before he could tell time or count change. Still leery, we got aboard only to have first Mate Earl Crocker, with a grizzled face and a stubble of beard and a look of mischief about him, start talking about the times when the water was up to his knees. But shucks, he said, it wasn't any problem. "The only thing you have to worry about the captain," he said, "is he drinks Diet Pepsi. Doesn't smoke or drink or anything. I consider people like him dangerous. When he gets on, I'm getting off." When he found out where my father lives, Crocker said, "Oh, Minnesota, I had a couple of 'sotas' once. Pepsi Colas, I think they were. Minne-sota - - that must be a small Pepsi." On the chatter went, until I doubled over in laughter. If I hadn't been laughing so hard, I might have thought of him as the comic on the Titanic. Every now and then he'd look at me and say, "You're laughing at me." I denied it. Whether that was his job or not, the affable first mate had us all at ease. Sure enough, when Ross ambled down the gangplank, with a six-pack of Diet Pepsi and an armload of chips and dip, Crocker got off. But before he did, he pointed to the galley, where Ross was unloading his goodies, and said, "That is the most efficient man who ever lived." ...
NOTE 7: NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: Homeless "...Earle Crocker, a 59 year old Bath resident who says he lived for two years under a bridge on the New Meadows River, was recently assisted in finding a room in a local boarding house. "You can't get a place to live in the goddam place. They don't want to take in any drinkers and bums. There is no place around here." sad Crocker who professes to drinking since the age of 15."... It has been for the Earl Crockers ... that many public and private efforts have arisen." Article was highlighted with a picture of Earl Crocker with the caption, "Earl Crocker, 59, of bath says he has lived two years under a bridge. picture by Jay Reiter/ Sun-journal photographer
NOTE 8: Burial: Harding Cemetery, East Brunswick, ME |