~ IN MEMORY ~
Dr. Marion Moore McCroskey, widow of DL Capt. Ralph
McCroskey
APRIL 15, 1931 – AUGUST 17, 2020
Notification with the passing of Dr. Marion Moore McCroskey,
widow of ATL based Delta Air Lines pilot Captain Ralph Andrew McCroskey who
passed in February 1991. Both obituaries appear below. Marion is survived by her children and their
families plus many more dear family members.
Marion’s obituary information may be viewed online at
To share memories and offer condolences, please visit the
funeral home’s website at
Thank you,
~ Carol for the PCN
Obituary……….. Dr. Marion Moore McCroskey (89), formerly of
Atlanta, Georgia, passed away August 17, 2020 in Fort Myers, Florida. The
family will receive friends and extended family at Berry Highland Memorial
(5315 Kingston Pike) in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday August 29th at 1 PM
followed by the funeral at Highland Memorial Cemetery on Saturday, August 29 at
3 PM.
Marion was born in April 1931 in a small coal mining town on
the Kentucky-Virginia border where her father was the mining company's medical
doctor. Soon after her birth, she and her parents moved to her mother's home
town of Knoxville, Tennessee where she grew up attending Knoxville High School
and then started at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. After about a
year, she then transferred to the University of Tennessee Medical School at
Memphis where she graduated at age 23 as one of the first five women students
to graduate as medical doctors. She did her residency in New Orleans and then
returned to Knoxville briefly and started medical practice in her father's
practice in downtown Knoxville. She soon married Ralph A. McCroskey, a pilot
for Delta Air Lines, and they together moved to Atlanta in 1958. Marion
practiced anesthesia in various hospitals in the Atlanta area until the late
1990s, including Ponce de Leon Infirmary and Atlanta Hospital.
Marion's husband Ralph died in 1991. Marion's first son,
Benjamin, died as an infant in 1958. Marion is survived by her three children:
Douglas William McCroskey, his wife Kacey and their daughters Lucy and Katie of
Atlanta, Georgia; Elizabeth Anne McCroskey of Boston, Massachusetts; and Thomas
Randolph McCroskey and his wife Zulfia of Fort Myers, Florida. She is also
survived by her brother Dr. Robert Moore Senior and his wife Doris Jean; her
sister Dorothy Moore Hyder; Maureen Moore, widow of her brother Dr. John D.
Moore Jr., and many nieces and nephews and their children.
Marion was known as an expert doctor with a calm, patient
bed-side manner and a truly encyclopedic knowledge of everything. She was a
loving wife and mother. She will be dearly missed by her family.
The family requests that mourners send donations to Planned
Parenthood or your local National Public Radio station in lieu of sending
flowers. Friends may leave their thoughts and memories at www.berryhighlandmemorial.com
…………………………………..
Capt. Ralph Andrew McCroskey, age 61
DOB 29-May-1929 DOH 3-Oct-1955 DOD 22-Feb-1991
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA) – article dated March
2, 1991
HONOLULU - Mr. Ralph A. McCroskey of Honolulu, a former
Atlantan and a retired Delta Air Lines captain, died of a heart attack Friday
at his airline office here. He was 61.
The funeral will be at 4 p.m. today at Wages & Sons
Stone Mountain Chapel. The body will be cremated.
Mr. McCroskey, a 34-year veteran of Delta, flew L-1011sand
DC-8s for Delta from 1955 to 1985. In 1989 he moved to Hawaii and bought the
Honolulu-based Panorama Air Tours, a commuter and sight-seeing airline.
Ralph Andrew McCroskey was born May 29, 1929, in Knoxville,
Tenn., the son of R. Frank McCroskey and Juanita Leonard McCroskey. He attended
the University of Tennessee, served as a Navy pilot during the Korean War, and
returned to the university, where he earned his law degree.
Mr. McCroskey was a former president of the Atlanta Chapter
of Planned Parenthood. He also belonged to the Atlanta Jaycees and the
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta.
Surviving are his wife, Marion Moore McCroskey; two sons,
Thomas R. McCroskey of Honolulu and Douglas W. McCroskey of Marlborough, Mass.;
a daughter, Elizabeth A. McCroskey of Boston; and a sister, Phyllis K. Owen of
Norcross.
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