Obituary - Evelyn Mae Crass

Sunday, January 7, 2001
THE JUNEAU EMPIRE

Longtime Juneau resident Evelyn Mae Crass, 91, died Jan. 3, 2001, at the Juneau Pioneers' Home.

She was born May 25, 1909, in Milwaukee, Wis., and grew up in Wisconsin. She married at age 17. She was living in Tacoma, Wash., with her husband Earl and son Earl Jr. in 1940 when they bought a 40­foot wooden boat, the Emma B, loaded all their worldly possessions aboard and cruised north. They lived in Ketchikan for about a year, and in the summer of 1942 came to Juneau. They lived aboard the Emma B for two years.

In the late 1940s, she and her family remodeled a home at Third and Gold Streets into a five­unit apartment, which they managed and lived in for many years. She worked as a homemaker and for many years was a waitress at the Baranof. She dedicated her life to homemaking, her son said.

She is survived by her son Earl J. Crass Jr. of Fairbanks, and grandsons Gary of New Jersey, Kevin of Detroit, Mich., and Tom Crass of Fairbanks, and by six great grandchildren, Scott, Christina, Kevin Jr., Misty Ann, Richard and Natily Crass.

There were no memorial services.

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