DUANE CROSS

RURAL LAMAR-Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Daniel Funeral Home for Marvin Duane Cross, 84, rural Lamar, who died Monday, Oct. 19, 2015, at his residence, following a short illness. Burial will be at Greenfield Cemetery in Jerico Springs.

Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children's Hospital or Shriner's Hospital, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include a son, Jon Cross and wife Chris, a daughter, Diana (Cross) Enright and husband Robert, a son, Mark Cross and wife Marilyn and a daughter, Karen Cross and fiance Sam, and a sister, Zelma Hooper, all of rural Lamar; 10 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren, as well as an extended family and friends.

He was preceded in death by an infant brother, Truman Cross and a brother-in-law, H.C. Hooper Jr.

Mr. Cross was born Dec. 14, 1930, in Dade County, to Ora and Nadine (Bratton) Cross. He attended Rockdale, a country grade school in Dade County, and later graduated from Golden City High School in 1949. After high school he served in the United States Navy.

In 1953 he married Joanna Foster and they later divorced in 1978.

He was a farmer and raised cattle. He drove a truck for North American Van Lines and was co-owner of the Lamar Livestock Barn for a short time. He started Cross Machinery and Salvage in 1968. In 1976 he started Cross Manufacturing, located in Mindenmines, which is still operating today. His second salvage yard, known as Hilltop, was purchased in 1995 and is still operating today. He loved going to auctions and had traveled to Mexico and Canada, as well as 46 of the 50 states, having dipped one foot in the Atlantic Ocean and the other in the Pacific Ocean. He was a member of the former Harmony Baptist Church and his family said that he led a very interesting life.