Ginger Yarbrough Crews

GINGER YARBROUGH CREWS, Our mother Ginger Yarbrough Crews, OCDS, age 82, of Little Rock, died on Wednesday, May 1, 2019. She was born in Steele, Mo., in 1937 and is preceded in death by her husband of 40 years, L. Adron Crews, who went to be with our Lord on Wednesday, May 1, 1996; an infant son, Gerald; her brother, Paul Yarbrough and parents Dewey and Lorene Turner Yarbrough. Mother has passed through death and met "The Resurrection," Jesus Our Lord. Her life has not ended only changed. Being now in the invisible Spiritual world, she ever remains with those of us: daughters Peggy Crews Jones and Lana Crews, and son David Crews. She is also survived by Peggy's husband Jim Jones and grandsons, Turner and Brooks Jones, Brooks' wife, Cami and their son, Luke Chandler, David's wife Samantha and granddaughters, Conley and Jennifer and Conley's daughter, Ocean, former daughter-in-law Joan Hooks Crews, eldest granddaughter Cameron, and grandson, D.J. Daniel. Mother's sisters are Gloria Frederick of Milwaukee, Wis., Judith Smith of Steele, Mo., brothers Ronnie Yarbrough of Steele, Mo., and Dr. John Yarbrough of Dallas, Texas. Mother's great love and devotion were to her family and friends and to her Catholic Faith and to the many Catholic Priests who she deeply loved and admired. A lifelong search for truth brought her from atheism to faith in the living Christ and to the Catholic Church in 1983. Since she thought prayer and action were two sides of the same coin and as a member of Christ the King Catholic Church, she felt a duty to God and His Church. He called her to volunteer and for nearly 20 years teaching Scripture to the 4th grade classes at Christ the King School and enjoyed sharing her love for Holy Scriptures and the glories of the faith with the students. Several of her students are in the seminary and several are already ordained to the Priesthood and she continued to pray for all her students. Mother and Dad thought Catholic education most important and prayerfully and financially supported Christ the King School. She also felt called to a life of prayer and became a secular member of the Discalced Carmelites. She was Formator of the Aspirants class at her secular Carmelite community for several years, also serving as President and member of Council. She and our father were members of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem KC*HS. This ancient order within the Church prayerfully and financially supports the Christians still living in the Holy Land and they took several pilgrimages to Rome and the Holy Land. Through the years, she served in several volunteer positions. At the Arkansas Art Center and Fine Arts Club, she served as Program Chairman and brought Wilheimina Holladay, who is founder of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. as one of her speakers. In addition to being a docent, she also served in the Art Skills department, writing presentations and taking the permanent collection in slide presentation to schools in the Little Rock and North Little Rock area. Governor Bill Clinton appointed her to serve on the Juvenile Advisory Board chaired by her good friend, Win Rockefeller. She enjoyed many weekends at Petit Jean with the board at the Rockefeller compound. Mother loved art, architecture, elegance, beauty and truth which she said were synonymous with God. When she worked in her Mary garden at home and among her religious art collection inside her home, she always said she was simultaneously working on her soul and needed all these holy reminders inside her home and outside in the garden. She was a member of several garden and antique clubs and loved all her gardening and antiquing friends. She attended UALR for many years after her children were grown and enjoyed every class, saying, learning is a life-long, exciting endeavor. She loved learning and reading and was a bookaholic and had an extensive library at home where she could curl up and be surrounded by her many friends in book form. Favorites were the Bible, The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Carmelite Saints, and every spiritual book she owned. She completed a three-year Theology course through St. Gregory's University in Oklahoma. Her continuing love of learning took her to Oxford and Cambridge, England for summer classes and on many travels throughout Europe, the Holy Land and Russia. Mother felt privileged to meet one of the last surviving members of the Faberge` family, Theo Faberge` and his daughter Sarah, and was invited to join their group and travel to St. Petersburg, Russia, to view the Faberge` collection in the Hermitage Museum. Mother experienced many joys and sorrows and expressed the thought of how fortunate we are if they balance. She was always thankful and grateful to God for she learned and grew from both joys and sorrows. These few lines from a favorite poem sum up her attitude of life: "Earth is crammed with heaven, and every common bush aflame with God, But only those who see . . . take off their shoes". Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Visitation will be held on Monday evening at 6 p.m., followed by a Rosary service at 7 p.m. at Christ the King Catholic Church. The family will remain afterwards to visit with those who couldn't make it to the early visitation. Mass of Christian burial will be held at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at Christ the King Catholic Church with Rev. Msgr. Francis I. Malone, J.C.L., P. A as celebrant. Burial will follow at Mt. Holly Cemetery in Little Rock. In lieu of flowers, please send contributions to: Carmelite Friars of Marylake, 5151 Marylake Drive, Little Rock, Ark. 72206, or to Discalced Carmelite Nuns, 7201 West 32nd Street, Little Rock, Ark. 72204 or Christ the King Catholic Church, 4000 N Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock, Ark. 72212. To sign the online guestbook please visit www.rollerfuneralhomes.com/chenal.