James Derek Crowder TUSCALOOSA - James Derek Crowder, 26, 8200 Old Marion Road, died Dec. 16, 2000. Services will be at Memory Chapel on Wednesday at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Michael Wallace officiating. Burial will follow in Tuscaloosa Memorial Park. Visitation is tonight from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home. Memory Chapel Funeral Home is directing. He is preceded in death by 16 month old, James Wesley Crowder; grandparents, James and Evelyn Crowder and Lonnie Wesley York. Survivors include his wife, Teresa Christine Ragland of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; daughters, Whitney Leigh Crowder and Abby Nicole Crowder both of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; parents, James M. and Betty Crowder; grandparents, Jullie Idell York and Bernice Ragland. Pallbearers will be David Epperson, Roger Friery, Rick Crowder, Jerry Crowder, Troy Decker and Chad Spencer. Honorary pallbearers are employees of Southern Heat Exchanges, friends of Unity Church community, friends of Bear Creek Road community, all rescuers, searchers, police officers, employees of Uniroyal Goodrich and Sprayberry Center, National Guard Unit #200 of Homewood, Ala., Mike Harris. In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made to the trust fund set up at B.F. Goodrich, C.U.
