Wayne Edson Crawford Obituary (1942

Wayne Edson Crawford passed away at home in Hansville with his family at his side on Friday, October 21, 2022. Wayne was born in Inglewood, California to Maurice Wayne and Dorothy Frances Crawford. After graduating from Hollywood High School Wayne earned his BS degree in Business Agriculture from California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo. While at Cal Poly he played flute in the marching band, joined ROTC and made many lifelong friends. He married his college sweetheart, and they spent the early years of their marriage stationed with the US Army in Wurzburg, Germany. The family then settled in North Hollywood, California to raise their children near Wayne's parents and siblings. Wayne was widowed after 17 years of marriage. In August 1983 Wayne married Connie Rae Amaden and they moved their blended family to nearby Arcadia, California. After 30 years of commuting to downtown Los Angeles to work at Union 76, Wayne took an early retirement. He and Connie designed and built their dream house in Sedona, Arizona to live around the corner from a college friend who had become family with the marriage of Wayne's son to their daughter. In 1997 Connie launched her own home sewing pattern line. Wayne and Connie would spend the next 20+ years traversing the United States, Canada, Jamaica, and Australia hosting workshops and selling patterns and textbooks while always prioritizing visits to family and friends along the way. In 2018 they sold the company and officially became "snowbirds" splitting their time between their home in Hansville (where they moved in 2005 to be closer to their grandchildren) and Mesa, Arizona. Wayne loved being on the road and camping in his RVs, riding his John Deere tractor at home and taking his beloved VW Squareback Type III, which he brought home from Germany in 1967, to local car shows. He is greatly missed by his family and many friends and will always be remembered for his easygoing, kind personality and coming "along for the ride." Wayne is preceded in death by his wife Carol Jane Crawford. He is survived by his wife Connie Rae Amaden, children David Crawford (Karyn) of Poulsbo, WA, Lynn Crawford, and Jason Amaden of Bainbridge Island, WA; six grandchildren, his brother William Crawford, sister Marijane Settlemyer, many nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews.