In Memory Of
Susan H. Crittenden
1930
2016
Susan H. Crittenden
June 25, 1930 — March 13, 2016
Susan H. Crittenden, wife of John A. Crittenden, died peacefully at her home in Cincinnati on Sunday, March 13, 2016. She leaves behind a family who will remember her with admiration and great affection: her husband, John; son, J. Alan, daughter, Drake Crittenden Ash; grandchildren, Danny, Sarah, and Emily Ash, John, Kathryn, Elizabeth, and Victoria Crittenden; two sisters, Maxine Baicker and Ruth Weinberg; cousin, Flo Hoffheimer, and various other relatives.
She was born Susan Fies Hofheimer in Norfolk, Virginia on June 25, 1930, went to Granby High School and obtained a BA at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio. She was a strong liberal Democrat of an independent mind who remembered campaigning at an early age against the Byrd machine in support of Francis Pickens Miller. In Washington D.C., Susan earned a masters degree in Public Administration at American University and worked on the staff of Representative Carl Elliott of Alabama, an important liberal figure in southern politics. In Terre Haute, Indiana, where she lived thirty years, Susan was a reporter for the Spectator and the Indianapolis Star, as well as being active in a civic reform organization called Housewives Effort for Local Progress (HELP.) Susan drew wide attention when in a criminal preceding both the prosecution and the defense agreed to her being on the jury, even though she had been covering the matter for the Star. She believed in the public good, and was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood in Terre Haute.
A memorial service for family and close friends will take place at a later date. Instead of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, or to the Spina Bifida Coalition of Cincinnati.
Please leave a special message for the family by clicking the 'Share Memories' button above.
She was born Susan Fies Hofheimer in Norfolk, Virginia on June 25, 1930, went to Granby High School and obtained a BA at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio. She was a strong liberal Democrat of an independent mind who remembered campaigning at an early age against the Byrd machine in support of Francis Pickens Miller. In Washington D.C., Susan earned a masters degree in Public Administration at American University and worked on the staff of Representative Carl Elliott of Alabama, an important liberal figure in southern politics. In Terre Haute, Indiana, where she lived thirty years, Susan was a reporter for the Spectator and the Indianapolis Star, as well as being active in a civic reform organization called Housewives Effort for Local Progress (HELP.) Susan drew wide attention when in a criminal preceding both the prosecution and the defense agreed to her being on the jury, even though she had been covering the matter for the Star. She believed in the public good, and was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood in Terre Haute.
A memorial service for family and close friends will take place at a later date. Instead of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, or to the Spina Bifida Coalition of Cincinnati.
Please leave a special message for the family by clicking the 'Share Memories' button above.
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