Obituary

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I remember him from working in the MP department back in ought-57 or so.

A heck of a nice guy.

EdKing
---- NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote: 

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> Lewis A. Creasy died Monday.   Vice President ?  Superintendent ?

> Board member ?  No, Mr. Creasy was one of the up-through-the

> ranks stenos.  In an era when female stenos were a "no-no" on

> business cars, he worked in the General Offices and on the road

> performing clerical assignments for the higher-ups.

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> He was six years old playing in a neighbor's yard when he saw

> men coming to advise his mother of his father's death.  His 

> father had been engineer on 1/51 from Shenandoah on Sept 10, 1923.

> Double-headed with engines 1123-1114, 1/51 entered the Rockydale

> Stone siding in Roanoke and collided with cars on that track.  

> ICC Report #982 indicates the switch had not been properly closed.

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> He was a deacon emeritus at Calvary Baptist Church and had

> served as Assistant to Vice President H. E. Carter . . . .for ten years.

>                                                Harry Bundy  

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