A memorial service is set for 3 p.m. Saturday at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Carson City for Gerald Ross Crum who died June 1, 2008, at University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. He was 59.
Mr. Crum was born Jan. 28, 1949, in Woodland, Calif. He served in the U.S. Navy and graduated from the Naval Electronics School in Great Lakes, Ill. He received a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering from California State University, Chico.
Mr. Crum worked as an electronics technician for Bently Nevada in Minden. He also served as a volunteer for former U.S. Sen. Richard H. Bryan, D-Nevada, in Carson City.
Throughout his long battle with chronic fatigue syndrome and mantle cell lymphoma, Mr. Crum lobbied the Nevada Legislature and U.S. Congress for research funding for these diseases. He was instrumental in helping to start the lobbying efforts in Congress for chronic fatigue syndrome and non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
Mr. Crum was an avid fly-fisherman and helped to start fly-fishing retreats for cancer survivors operated by Casting for Recovery and Reel Recovery in Northern Nevada.
He is survived by his wife Colleen "Coco" Crum, parents Robert and Gladys Crum, brother and sister-in-law Robert Crum and Linda Dosey, all of Carson City; sister and brother-in-law Carol and Mike Gaston, nephew and his wife Jeff and Bree Wedell, nephew Mark Wedell, all of Chico, Calif., and aunt Aileen Halko of Vacaville, Calif.
Mr. Crum also is survived by mother- and father-in-law Jerry and Vivian Crowell of Fallon, sister- and brother-in-law Connie and Steve Pepper, nephew and niece Allen and Elena Saine and grandniece Cassandra Saine, all of Phoenix.
A private burial is planned at a later date.
