NAME: ALENE (HASS) CROWSON, AGE 79, A LONGTIME ATOKA AND COAL COUNTY BUSINESSWOMAN.

BORN: NOVEMBER 14, 1921 AT BIG FORK, ARKANSAS TO ILA AND ARTIE MAE (BATES) HASS. PASSED AWAY: SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2001 AT THE ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. AGE: 79 YEARS 3 MONTHS AND 19 DAYS. EDUCATION: SHE GRADUATED FROM PITTSBURG HIGH SCHOOL IN 1938. MARRIED: HARLON HUGH BUCK CROWSON ON DECEMBER 23, 1939 AT PITTSBURG, OK. OCCUPATION: ALENE OWNED AND OPERATED NUMEROUS CAFES AND RESTURANTS IN THE AREA. SHE STARTED IN THE LATE 40'S AT KIOWA. SHE OPERATED THE TOURIST CAFE AT PHILLIPS, ROCKING T AT ATOKA, TROLLY AT WAPANUCKA AND THE BEST WESTERN AND BLEDSOE'S DINER IN ATOKA.FOR THE LAST 2 YEARS OR SO SHE DID BAKING AND CATERING. ALENE WAS ALWAYS VERY ACTIVE AND MUCH INVOLVED IN THE DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS OF HER BUSNESS. THE LAST FEW YEARS FROM A WHEEL CHAIR. CHURCH AFFILIATION: MEMBER OF THE DAYSPRING CHURCH IN ATOKA SURVIVED BY SON: JAMES CROWSON AND WIFE FRANKIE OF ATOKA, OK. GRANDCHILDREN: JAMIE STANDRIDGE AND HUSBAND SEAN OF ATOKA, OK. COREY CROWSON AND WIFE AMANDA OF ATOKA, OK. GREAT GRANDCHILDREN: STETSON FROST, DILLON ROBERTS, TUKER STANDRIDGE, TAYLOR GRACE CROWSON, KALI JO STANDRIDGE, MAZIE MARIE STANDRIDGE OF ATOKA, OK. SISTER: ARMEL BURNS AND HUSBAND VIRGIL OF DEXTER, NM. BROTHERS: ILA JOE HASS AND WIFE SYLVIA OF MCALESTER, OK. JULIUS A. HASS AND WIFE MARGIE OF HARTSHORN, OK. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: ILA AND ARTIE MAE HASS. HUSBAND: BUCK IN MAY, 1982. BROTHER: NELSON HASS.

DATE OF SERVICES: MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2001 AT 2:00 PM. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK. INTERMENT: OAK HILL CEMETERY ~ MCALESTER, OK. OFFICIATING: DANNY COCHRAN AND STEVE SWINDALL. CASKETBEARERS: DONALD HASS, BENNIE NEAL, ROYCE MANION, CHARLES SCROGGINS, JOHN ROWLAND, CHESTER EDGE. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: BILL ED GLASSCOCK, JIM POOL, BOB FREDERICK, J. D. VOTO, ABBOTT JONES, BRICK DASHNER, HAL ISHMAEL, EARL MOFIELD, LESTER NICHOLS, PHILLIP ALLEN, RICHARD GARSIDE.