Charlie was a wonderful man and a friend. He'll be missed-
Charles M. Crump, former chancellor of the Diocese of West Tennessee and deputy to 17 General Conventions, has died in Memphis, Tenn. He was 96.
He retired from a 71-year career in law on his 95th birthday in October 2008. He resigned as the diocese’s chancellor at the same time, and declined to run for election to the 76th General Convention.
He was a first-time deputy to the 59th General Convention, which met in October 1958 in Miami Beach, Fla. Troubled that deputies did not receive written copies of resolutions, a daily agenda, or reports of the previous day’s decisions, the new deputy recommended publishing that information. The next General Convention began distributing those written reports.
Crump and other longtime deputies were called “oaks” of the House of Deputies in recent years.
When Church of the Holy Communion, Memphis, began meeting as a mission of Calvary Church in 1939, Crump concluded his Saturday-night dates with Diana Wallace by stopping by the chapel to fire up furnaces before Sunday’s services. Charles and Diana Crump were married at Holy Communion in 1940.
Crump helped select the church’s location on Walnut Grove Road, where it opened in 1950. Holy Comforter now has more than 1,300 baptized members.
http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2010/8/9/veteran-deputy-charles-crump-dies-at-96
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