Thomas Earl Crippin Sr

   Thomas Earl Crippin Sr, 90 of Oakwood, left this life on Friday, January 28, 2022 at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. Visitation will be from 11-1pm on Saturday, February 5th at Kruger Coan Pape Funeral Home, 10 E. Williams Street in Danville with services following at 1pm. Pastor Raymie Gordon will officiate. Following services Tom will be laid to rest in Allhands cemetery next to his wife Marilyn with military honors by American Legion post 210.

   Tom was born on November 19, 1931 in Danville to William and Edna (Henderson) Crippin. He attended Garfield, Lincoln, and Collett grade schools, as well as DHS. Tom enlisted in the US Army at only 17 years old and served during The Korean War, until an injury sent him home in 1952. Upon returning home Tom worked odd jobs in the Danville area before getting on at Chanute Air Force Base for twenty-eight years in the warehouse and mail delivery. When he wasn’t working, he could often be found outdoors- hunting, fishing, taking short day trips, and attending flea markets. He was longtime member of the local Korean War Vets.

   On May 1, 1952 Tom married Marilyn Joan Thomas, and the two shared sixty-one years together before her passing in 2013. Tom leaves behind his children: Terry Crippin (Sandy), Vickie Quick, Thomas Crippin Jr. (Becky), Ricky Crippin, and Judy Moreman; thirty-one grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, a son: Randy Crippin, grandson: Josh Crippin,  infant grandson: Thomas McQueen, and his siblings: Dorothy Adams, Milton Crippin, Raymond Crippin, William Crippin, James Crippin, Clarence Crippin, and Lula Powell.

    Messages and memories may be left on our website at www.KrugerCoanPape.com, or on the Kruger Funeral Home Facebook page. In lieu of flowers, the family would prefer donations be made in Tom’s memory to the Vermilion County War Museum.  

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