Eugene Croxton Crisler

Eugene Croxton Crisler, MD, 79, died Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at Chester Regional Medical Center.The funeral service will be 3:00 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church of Chester with Reverend Clay Waldrip officiating. The family will receive friends from 1:30 ? 3:00 p.m. Thursday prior to the service in the foyer of First Baptist Church.The interment will be in Chester Memorial Gardens. Born in Homer, Louisiana February 21, 1931, Dr. Crisler was the son of the late Joe Rush Crisler and Lera Croxton Crisler.Dr. Crisler graduated from Homer High School in Homer, LA, attended Louisiana College in Pineville, LA and graduated from LSU Medical School and did his internships and residences in Charleston, SC and Long Island, NY.He served six years as a Lieutenant in the US Navy at the Charleston Naval Base.He practiced radiology for forty-one years until his retirement in 1998.He was a member of First Baptist Church in Chester since 1975, where he served as deacon and as chairman of the deacons numerous times.He taught Sunday School almost sixty years and taught the Monroe Crain Class at First Baptist for thirty-four years.He led the committee that established the First Baptist Church constitution.He traveled extensively in the United States and abroad and participated in three mission trips to Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania with the First Baptist Church Mission Team.During his retirement he took great pleasure in helping with the collection of shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. He is survived by his current wife Patricia Shull Crisler and five children; three sons, Robert E. Crisler of Burlington, MA, Dr. Richard D. Crisler and wife Tisha of Tempe, AZ and James F. Burriss, III of Greenville, SC; two daughters, Edith C. Shumate and husband Rev. Michael Shumate of Shelby, NC and Beth B. Lynn and husband Rodney of Matthews, NC; six grandchildren, Rebekah and Aaron Shumate of Shelby, NC, Tyler and Sydney Lynn of Matthews, NC and Emily and Sophia Crisler of Tempe, AZ. He was preceded in death in 1979 by his first wife Helen Callaway Crisler. Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church of Chester, PO Box518, Chester, SC 29706. Online condolences to the family can be made at www.barronfuneralhome.com. Barron Funeral Home, 133 Wylie Street, Chester will be in charge of arrangements.