Emma Clara Crabtree

Emma Clara Broglin Crabtree, also know as Buster to all her friends and family, was born on April 21, 1940 and passed on January 29, 2023 at the Roane Medical Center in Harriman after a long battle with kidney disease.  She was born in Roane County to Walter & Debbie Broglin.  The love of her life was her husband, Doyle Edward Crabtree who passed in 2006, her childen, grandchildren and especially her great-grandchildren.  Ed and Emma were married for 50 years.

She leaves to cherish her memory:

Sister, Sue Broglin Hughes of Rockwood; sister-in-law, Delaphene Massengill of Ten Mile; children, Keith and Karen Crabtree, Carolyn and Tim Tonachio, Brian and Sandi Crabtree, Kim and Susan Crabtree, John and Anna Crabtree; grandchildren, Blake and PJ Narramore, Marissa and John Troy, Tori Crabtree, Natasha and Kristina Crabtree; great-grandchildren, Willow, Tilly, Cruz and Ella Narramore, Killian Troy.

Her trusty companion of the last seventeen years has been her little Yorkie, Libby.

Her hobbies over the years were sewing and quilting. She was a life long member of the Midway Church of God.  She drove a bus for the Michael Dunn Center, worked at the hosiery mill in Rockwood and Chase Manufacturing in Rockwood.

Graveside service will be held 1:00 pm, Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at Rose Cemetery in Kingston, Tennessee. In lieu of flowers, the family ask that you make donations in Emma’s memory to Maranatha Ministries (Midway Church of God) or The Roane County Humane Society.  Online register book can be signed at www.FrakerFuneralHome.net.  Fraker Funeral Home of Kingston is in charge of all the arrangements.

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