Mayron Frances Crutcher Huddleston passed away peacefully at home on September 2, 2022. She was 92 years old. Mayron, a daughter of William Sanders Crutcher and Lemma Hinkle Crutcher, was one of 10 children born on the pre-Civil War family farm at Coopertown, Tennessee. She cherished the farm all her life.
Mayron lived a full life. She attended George Peabody College in Nashville. She and her husband, Elwyn Huddleston, met at college and married in 1950. They had two children, Carrie Huddleston Nobles, and Robert Claiborne Huddleston, II, who died in infancy. She and Elwyn were great travelers, visiting four continents and spending five years in Peru working for an American mining company.
Mayron was an accomplished artist. The family home is filled with her paintings in oil, acrylics, watercolor and charcoal. She also sewed and crocheted beautifully. A lifelong community volunteer, Mayron was active for decades in the Garden Club of America, where she was a senior certified National Judge. Mayron almost always brought home the blue ribbon from the Garden Club’s flower shows. For many years she also served on the Board of the Friends of the Brentwood Library.
Mayron is survived by her husband and her daughter, her sister-in-law, Ann Collins Crutcher, her brother, Richard Crutcher and his wife, Shannon, and a host of nieces and nephews.
Mayron’s Memorial Service will be conducted by Dr. Robert Tyson at Battle Creek Baptist Church at 11am on Friday, September 16th.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that gifts be considered to the Battle Creek Cemetery Fund, c/o Battle Creek Baptist Church, 2655 Battle Creek Road, Springfield, TN 37172.
Austin & Bell Funeral Home in Springfield is in charge of these arrangements.
