Richard J. Crosby Sr.; 87; of
513 First St.; Monessen; died
Wednesday; April 29; 1992; at 4
a.m. in Mon Valley Hospital
Inc.. Carroll Township.
Born May 23; 1904; in Salem;
W.Va.; he was the son of the late
Richard and Bessie Jack
Crosby.
A Monessen resident since
1934; Mr. Crosby had been
employed as a motion picture
projectionist throughout the
Mon Valley area. His career
began with silent films and concluded upon his retirement when
the former Manos Theater in
Monessen ceased its operations.
He was a member of St. Paul
Lutheran Church; Monessen;
and the Mon Valley
Leathernecks; and served as
business agent for the Motion
Picture Machine Operators
Union Local 628 of the AFL-CIO.
He also served as past post commander of Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post 1190; Monessen.
He served as a Marine guard
for the U.S. Legation in Peking;
China; during the 1920s and was
awarded the Yangtze Service
Medal in Shanghai in 1927 while
on expeditionary duty there as a
member of a landing party from
the U.S.S. Chaumont.
In addition to his parents; he
was preceded in death by a
brother; Lawrence; and three
sisters; Ella and Betty Crosby
and Marion Ruby.
Surviving are his wife; Eloise
Harman Crosby; two sons;
Richard Crosby of Bethel Park
and Dayne Crosby of Monessen;
three grandchildren; three
nieces and three nephews.
Friends will be received Thursday
evening from 7 to 9 and Friday
from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. in the
Stephen D. Yoney Jr. Funeral
Home; First Street and Schoonmaker Avenue;Monessen. A funeral service will be held Saturday at 11 a.m.in the funeral home with Rev. Reinold Schlak;pastor of St.Paul’s Lutheran Church of Monessen;officiating. Interment will follow with full military honors at Belle Vernon Cemetery. The Stephen D. Yoney Jr.Funeral Home is handling funeral arrangements.