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Mr. Richard Allen Merkel

05/08/1938 - 01/14/2022

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Mr. Richard Allen Merkel, age 83, of South Hill, died on Friday January 14, 2022 in the Hundley Center. He was a retired Assistant Vice-President for the former Bank of Virginia, working in the credit card security and fraud division, a United States Navy Veteran, an avid golfer and a lover of all animals. Mr. Merkel is survived by his wife, Carolyn Smiley Merkel of South Hill; his three sisters: Barbara, Anita and Mary, and his son. A graveside funeral service will be conducted on Thursday January 20th at 2:00 P.M. in Crestview Memorial Park. Memorial contributions in Mr. Merkel’s name may be made to the Lake Country SPCA at P.O. Box 14, Clarksville, VA 23927 or through their website, www.lakecountryspca.org or to the Antioch Christian Church at P.O. Box 76, Henrico, NC 27842. Online condolences may be made through our website, www.crowderhitecrews.com. Crowder-Hite-Crews Funeral Home and Crematory is serving the Merkel family.

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At Crowder-Hite-Crews we’ve always been proud to say that we are large enough to serve and small enough to care.  When you choose us, we consider this a sacred trust between your family and ours. We offer a full range of funeral service, whether for a traditional funeral or cremation, and we are able to assist families worldwide. In February of 2004 we installed a crematorium to better serve our cremation families.  We now do all cremations in our facility, saving transport to another location for this service.  Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the cremation process.

Family owned and operated since 1972.

Situated on a 3-acre pastoral setting.

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Staff members are active in many civic organizations in the area, including Lions, Rotary, Moose Lodge, Masons, Ruritan, and Chamber of Commerce.

Owners are former Presidents of the Virginia Funeral Directors Association and Southside Funeral Directors Association.

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Crowder-Hite-Crews Funeral Home & Crematory

PO Box 422
1504 N. Mecklenburg Ave.
South Hill, VA 23970
Local (434) 447-7171
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