Aline Pearl Crum

Aline Pearl (Dassonville) Crum, a retired school teacher from Frankford and Barboursville, W.Va., died peacefully in her Gallatin Gateway, Mont., home on Monday, April 29, 2013, at the age of 104.

Visitation will be at Chapman’s Mortuary, 2851 Third Ave, Huntington, W.Va., from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Thursday, May 23.

Funeral services will follow at 12 p.m., with Rev. Skip Seibel of the First Presbyterian Church presiding. Interment will take place next to her husband at the Woodmere Burial Park in Huntington immediately following the funeral.

She was born on Feb. 18, 1909, in Spring Creek, W.Va., a daughter of Henry and Fideline (Lannoy) Dassonville. She graduated from high school in Frankford, and from college at Marshall University. After receiving her degree, she taught high school English at Frankford for 17 years before marrying her husband, Clyde G. Crum, in 1948 and moving to Huntington, W.Va. in 1949.

She then completed her masters degree in English from Marshall University and taught an additional 23½ years in the Cabell County school system until her retirement in 1974 at the mandatory retirement age of 65. During her last 17 years of teaching, she taught history and college prep English at Barboursville Senior High School.

She was a longtime member of the First Presbyterian Church of Huntington, and in her retirement, until age 90, she volunteered many hours making flower arrangements for residents of the Presbyterian Manor Nursing Home.

She served in leadership positions in both the Conference Club of the Young Women’s Christian Association and the First Presbyterian Church Corbly Memorial Class. She was a member of Marshall University Alumni Association, C.C.A.R.S.E and West Virginia Education Association.

She enjoyed working in her flower garden and was an avid listener of Marshall basketball and Cincinnati Reds baseball games. At age 101, she decided it was time to give up living alone and moved to Montana in December 2010 to live with her nephew.

She was preceded in death by her loving husband, Clyde G. Crum, of Huntington; two sisters, Marie A. Jones of Baltimore, Md., and Verna D. Thomas of Charleston, W.Va.; and brother, Paul J. Dassonville, of Frazer.

Survivors include a nephew, Curtis Dassonville and his wife, Karen, of Gallatin Gateway; two nieces, Phyllis Dassonville Berge and her husband, Richard, of Bainville, and Janice Dassonville Long and her husband, Bernard, of Wolf Point; along with three generations of grand nephews and nieces; numerous nephews, nieces, grand nephews and grand nieces of her late husband, Clyde Crum.

Memorial donations in her name may be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Huntington or to the charity of one’s choice.