Anna Crowell

Portsmouth, - Anna Boone Lyons Crowell, 100, of 125 Quaker Hill Lane Portsmouth, died Tuesday, December 31, 2002 at home. She was a widow of the late L. Sanford Crowell and Thomas W. Lyons. Born February 21, 1902 in The Green Farm House on Shoreby Hill in Jamestown, RI, she was the daughter of the late Albert A. and Annie M. Skelly Boone.Mrs. Crowell was a graduate of Jamestown Public School, Rogers High School and R.I. State Normal School, now R.I. College and was a teacher in Jamestown prior to her marriage. During World War II she returned as a substitute teacher in Jamestown and North Kingston for 27 years. While a teacher in Jamestown she was appointed chairman of a small committee to organize a parent and teacher association which later affiliated with the State and Federal Parent Teacher Association. She was at one time president of this association. A communicant of St. Mark Church, she was active in the church as a choir member, Sunday school teacher, worker and chairman of the bazaars, member and past president of Our Ladys Sodality. Mrs. Crowell was instrumental in founding the Jamestown Chapter of the Red Cross and the Visiting Nurse Association and was a member until the organization was absorbed by the state. She was a volunteer reader for the R. I. Association for the Blind, a member of the Jamestown Choral Group, and a member and past president of the Jamestown Womens Club. She is survived by two sons Capt. Thomas W. Lyons Jr. of Portsmouth, RI and Albert B. Lyons of Newport, RI, three daughters Loretta Fuller of Bethel Park, PA, Mary E. Lyons and Frances Toth both of Fort Myers, FL, ten grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.She was the sister of the late Bessie Boone, Dorothy Dowling and Pauline Walsh.Her funeral will be held on Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 9:30 AM from the Memorial Funeral Home, 375 Broadway, Newport, with a Mass of Christian burial at 10:30 AM in St. Mark Church, 60 Narragansett Avenue, Jamestown. Burial will be in St. Mark Cemetery in Jamestown.