Sara Crowe McClure was born June 19, 1931, to Spencer Guy Crowe and Lena Brunt Crowe in the Shady Grove Community of Attala County, Mississippi. She was the third of four children.
Sara’s father died when she was 10 years old. He died in April of 1941.
Sara’s mother was this strong figure in her life. She raised four children and was always pleasant. This serviced as a great inter strength for Sara. Sara’s mother loved Kosciusko and the people and so did her children. Jim would often say, “Sara, how do you know so many people!” Little did he know that before his life was over, it seemed that his life touched almost everyone.
Sara graduated from Kosciusko High School in 1949. Having two older brothers brought enthusiasm for football into the home. Sara was a Junior and Senior Cheerleader at Kosciusko High School. This interest in football continued as Sara and Norris’s sons came along. There was only one slight change – Roll Tide!
The twelve years after graduating Sara worked as a dental assistant to Dr. J.A. Pender of Kosciusko.
Sara was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Kosciusko and she and Norris were married there in April 1956.
The next few years took Sara and her family to Kansas and Kentucky with the Pet Milk Company. While living in Mayfield Kentucky. Sara worked with the Three Rivers Counsel of the Cub Scouts. Then Norris went to work in Birmingham, Alabama for Barber Milk Company as a plant supervisor, then the Production Coordinator and lived in the Eastlake community for the next Twenty Four years.
Norris suffered a heart attack in 1973 and Sara went to work until Norris was well. Her plan was to work for a few months, but the months turned into eleven years.
Sara worked for Lake View Nursing Home in Birmingham, AL. The owner of the nursing home, Mrs. Ruby Hudson became one of Sara’s most treasured friends and Sara felt this work was the most worthwhile thing she had ever done!
Sara always worked as if the nursing home was her own and that the patients were family she was taking care of. At Christmas she would always gathering little presents for the patients, if only it was a personal bath towel, bath cloth and a bar of soap, so they would receive a little something at Christmas.
Sara also held a Yard Sale at nursing home. The employees donated things for the yard sale and the profits were used to buy new drapes and blankets for the patient’s rooms. The left over money was used to help pay for events for the patients. She said the patients had fun with the hustle and bustle of the yard sale, peeping out the windows and waving as the customers as they would come and go from the sale.
In 1992 Norris retired and the family moved to Beaver Valley, Ashville, AL., and the Country was different and wonderful. Sara always said.
Sara always had a love for her family, friends and the town Kosciusko, She would following events in the Star Herald with she received weekly. After moving to Birmingham, Norris asked Sara to purchase a family plot in Kosciusko for Kosciusko was where they spent some of his favorite years of his life, which she gladly did. Sara told her mother that she would just be across the street from her, Matha, Jim and Hilda. Sara gave Bob the 5th grave plot she had, so now the family is all together again.
Sara was preceded in death by her husband Norris McClure, parents Spencer Guy Crowe and mother Lena Brunt Crowe, brother’s Robert “Bob” Spencer Crowe (Ann & Hazel), James “Jim” Newton Crowe (Hilda) and a sister Matha Louise Crowe.
Survivors include: sons Norris Scott McClure and Bradley Stewart McClure of Ashville, AL. Nephew Louis Crowe (Kim) of Kosciusko, Ms., two nieces Rene’ Crowe Groitzsch (Lee) of Nashville TN and Dr. Cynthia Crowe Perky (John) and lifelong friend Thelma Grantham of Pinson, AL.

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