MARJORIE (MARGE) ELAINE MUENZLER CRAWFORD
November 24, 1931 — October 6, 2022
Marjorie (Margie) Elaine Muenzler Crawford, 90, passed away on October 6, 2022, in Lakeway, Texas. Margie was born on November 24, 1931, to Harry Louis Muenzler and Elsie Martha Doerr Muenzler at the Industry United Methodist Church parsonage in Industry, Texas where her grandfather, Reverend Doerr was the minister. She married Velton Marion (Pet) Crawford, Jr. of Columbus, Texas on July 19, 1949. Margie was raised in New Ulm, Texas and attended the New Ulm School through the 8th grade and then Columbus High School in Columbus, Texas where she graduated in 1949.
During the first 15 years after marrying Pet, Margie was a stay-at-home mom and housewife at their home north of Columbus in the Rau family homeland.
In May 1964, she followed her husband Pet to Alaska where he was already working—a life-changing adventure for the whole family. She drove from Columbus, Texas to Anchorage, Alaska in a pickup truck with a shell camper accompanied by her three children and two dogs (approximately 4,500 miles). They settled in Homer, Alaska where she worked as a seam- stress for the local cleaners (her first job), and Pet worked construction rebuilding the community from the destruction of the huge, devastating March 1964 earthquake.
In 1966, they returned to Texas and moved to the Spring Branch area of Houston. Margie subsequently worked for many years in administration for Union Texas Petroleum and Brown & Root. She and Pet moved back to Columbus in 1977 and opened Crawford Metals & Fabricating. They also began ranching. In 1988, they opened Stockman’s Barbecue and provided locals with great barbecue until 1993.
Known as “Gammy” to her grandchildren, Margie spent her later years attending their Little League baseball and Columbus Cardinal football games, following a grandson in the Cardinal band and a granddaughter in cheerleading, watching junior tennis matches and soccer games, as well as attending sports played in Cedar Park by her grandchildren there. She loved sitting around a campfire with them or the Christmas Eves when the whole Crawford family would gather at her home. She loved road trips and made several long drives again to and from Alaska—always the “side-seat navigator.”
Margie was preceded in death by her husband Velton Marion (Pet) Crawford, Jr.; father Harry L. Muenzler; and mother Elsie Doerr Muenzler.
She is survived by her daughters Anne Crawford Cain and Dinah Crawford; son Velton Marion (Bubba) Crawford III (Cynthia); grandsons Kevin Krhovjak (Cheryl), Chris Krhovjak (Rachel), Brian Crawford (Chelsea), Doak Crawford (Kyleigh), and Josh Crawford; granddaughters Stephanie Crawford and Amanda Dixon; great-grandsons Alex Krhovjak, Cooper Krhovjak, Maddoxx Krhovjak, and step-great-grandson Cody Pate; great-granddaughter Presley Rose Crawford; sister LaVerne Muenzler Gibson; and nephew Joe Gibson.
Visitation will be at Henneke Funeral Home on Friday, October 14, 2022, from 1:00—2:00 p.m. followed by a service at 2:00 p.m. by Steve Ledbetter. Burial and graveside service will take place in the Zimmerscheidt-Leyendecker family cemetery located in the Zimmerscheidt community north of Columbus, Texas on FM 109 North.
Pallbearers are her grandsons Kevin Krhovjak, Chris Krhovjak, Brian Crawford, Doak Crawford, and Josh Crawford; and great-grandsons Alex Krhovjak, Cooper Krhovjak, Maddoxx Krhovjak, and Cody Pate.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Lucies Project Animal Shelter, P.O. Box 325, Sheridan, TX 77475.
Online condolences may be given at www.hennekefuneralhome.com. Henneke Funeral Home, Columbus, Texas