Brown-Crocker

OBIT- Sandwich MA Eugene Richard Crocker, age 72, a retired captain of oil tankers and tug boats, formerly of Centerville and Hyannis, died Friday at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston MA after a brief illness. He was the husband of Lois Frances (Duffy) Crocker who died in 1993. Having a lifelong love of the sea, Mr Crocker took boat-building courses while attending Barnstable High School and as a teenager worked at Crosby Boat Yard in Osterville. During WWII he served with the Merchant Marene (sic), and twice made the Murmansk run.

After the war Mr Crocker become a tugboat captain, starting on coal-fired tugboats. He worked on the Mississippi River, the Great Lakes, and along the Atlantic seaboard, and for the last ten years of his career was captain of the Exxon Baystate.

Upon his retirement Eugene Crocker became active in several volunteer activities in Sandwich and Falmouth, including day health care for the elderly, an Alzheimer's support group in Sandwich, the Penikese Island School in Woods Hole, and a boat building project in the Falmouth schools.

He lived in Centerville MA for about 25 years before moving to Sandwich ten years ago. Survivors include his two daughters, Lois C Harvey of West Falmouth and Nancy Murawski of Utica NY, a brother, Charles F Crocker of Marstons Mills, a sister, Ernestine C Monroe of Centerville, and six grandchildren.