Willie Bruce Ross

Birth: Feb. 13, 1882

Greene County

Tennessee, USA

Death: Feb. 6, 1942

Fayetteville

Washington County

Arkansas, USA

Daughter of William Gravnor Ross & Mary Caroline Hunter, wife of Lacy Neal Cruse. Tombstone dates are incorrect. Willie was "Mother", Lacy was "Father".

Mrs. Neal Cruse Dies

Here Early Today

Mrs. Willie Ross Cruse, wife of Neal Cruse, former Fayetteville chief of police, now living near Prairie Grove, died this morning at the home of her cousin, Miss Ethel Moore in Fayetteville.

Funeral Services will be conducted by Rev. H. S. Mobley at Prairie Grove Cumberland church at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon.

Mrs. Cruse, a native of Tennessee was the daughter of Will and Mary Hunter Ross. She was a resident of Fayetteville for many years. Surviving are her husband and four children: Mrs. Lillian Woods, Wilmont; Gerald Cruse of Springfield, Mo.; Mrs. Vernon Miller of Slaton, Tex.; and Miss Wanda Cruse of Fayetteville. One sister, who lives in California, also survives.

Northwest Arkansas Times, February 6, 1942