Clifford Clarke Crabill

Clifford Clarke Crabill

Crabill, Clifford Clarke (1924-1972)

Photograph of Clifford Clarke Crabill as a young boy.

Known as Clarke, he was from Strasburg, the son of Charles Marion (1885-1952) and Hattie Belle (Stickley) (1884-1957) Crabill.

When he registered for the WWII draft, he lived with his parents on and worked at Vaughan's Drugstore on E. King Street. He served in the U.S. Navy during the war (1943-1946) and by 1950, he was back in Strasburg, still single and working as a carpenter's helper in a construction business.

He married Edna Sibert and went on to work as a salesman for the chemical industry. He died young, only 48 years old, of pancreatic cancer.

Morrison Studio

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Shenandoah County Library

Labelled "Jan 1932" on box of plates.

Identified by Graham Conner, who remembered subject lived in a house where the Legion building now stands and that his mother worked in the mail room of the Northern Virginia Daily.

Biographical information was compiled from public records.

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Clifford Clarke Crabill appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 006509 and 006517.

A page from Clifford Clarke Crabill's Naval Separation packet appears is Morrison Studio Collection number 025345.

The certificate issued to Clifford Clarke Crabill when he was honorably discharged from the Navy appears in Morrison Studio Collection number 026209.

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