HOLCOMB, Mary Lou CRAWFORD - News readers, many of whom are friends of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Holcomb, will be pained t o learn of the death of the latter, which occurred Friday at their home in Fayetteville and all will sympathize deeply with the husband and children in their great bereavement. Concerning the deceased the Fayetteville Daily says: Mary Lou Crawford, daughter of William and Nancy Crawford, was born at Cane Hill, this county, November 4th, 1870. Died March 12, 1909. She was married to Bruce Holcomb June 25, 1901. To this union there were born three children. One, Robert, preceded her to another world, having died in June 1907 at the age of eighteen months. The others, Crawford, aged six, and Mary, aged four months, with their father, her aged mother and one brother, Prof. W.A. Crawford of Russellville, Ark., survive her. Mrs. Holcomb professed faith in Christ and united with the Cumberland Presbyterian church at Cane Hill at the age of ten years. After removing to this city in 1893 she became a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, now the Central Presbyterian church of this city and remained a worthy, consistent member until the day of her death. Mrs. Holcomb was of a sweet, charming disposition and her friends and admirers were numbered by those who came to know her. She was a student in the University and later a teacher in the public schools and whether as student, teacher, wife, mother, daughter, sister or friend she carried sunshine, happiness and efficiency into all relations in life. The funeral services, conducted by Rev. M.L. Gillispie, took place at the residence at 2:30 this afternoon. The interment was in Evergreen Cemetery. [The Springdale News 3/16/1909]