HAZEL ELEANOR (SALMON) CRAWFORD, 88, PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY FROM HOME ON NOV 16, 2025, AFTER AN 8-YEAR BATTLE WITH DIALYSIS.

HAZEL WAS BORN APRIL 23, 1937, IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA, TO MARY AND GLADSTONE REGINALD SALMON.  SHE ALSO HAD 2 SISTERS, IVY BROWN, JEAN SALMON AND 1 BROTHER, ERROL SALMON. HAZEL ATTENDED SAINT JOSEPH GIRLS SCHOOL IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA.  AFTER GRADUTATING, SHE WORKED AT FRAIZER PHOTO STUDIO IN KINGSTON, WHERE SHE MET AND MARRIED VINCENT CRAWFORD ON JUNE 20, 1954. THEIR MARITAL JOURNEY LASTED 71 YEARS.

HER HUSBAND LEFT FOR THE UNITED STATES AND WAS DRAFTED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY.  HE RETURNED TO JAMAICA FOR HAZEL AND TOGETHER THEY BUILT A MILITARY LIFE, LIVING IN NEW YORK, CONNECTICUTT, GERMANY, KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, AND FINALLY SETTLING IN NEW JERSEY WHILE RAISING 5 CHILDREN.  VINCENT JR, MARILYN, LINDA, JOSEPH AND MICHAEL. FOR A WHILE, HAZEL WAS AN EMT FOR NEW LISBON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY STATE SCHOOL RAISING TO THE POSITION OF HEAD COTTAGE TRAINING SUPERVISOR.  SHE RETIRED AFTER 26 YEARS OF SERVICE.  AFTER HER HUSBAND RETIRED FROM MILITARY SERVICE, THEY MADE FLORIDA THEIR HOME.

ONE OF MANY PASSIONS, HAZEL LOVED, WAS GARDENING.  NO MATTER WHERE HOME WAS, SHE WOULD ALWAYS HAVE FLOWER BEDS IN THE YARD FULL OF SUNFLOWERS, BEGONIAS, LILIES, CANNONS, GERANIUMS AND ROSES AND HER FAVORITE FLOWERS WERE ROSES AND ORCHIDS.  SHE WOULD ALSO GROW VEGETABLES AND JAMAICAN SPICES. HAZEL LOVED TO CROCHET AND SEW FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.  SHE WAS ALSO AN AVID READER. EVERYONE ENJOYED HER COOKING, WETHER PREPARING AMERICAN OR WEST INDIAN DISHES.

HAZEL LOVED THE LORD AND WHEN HER HEALTH PERMITTED, SHE ATTENDED PORT CHARLOTTE GLOBAL METHODIST CHURCH OR ATTENDED SERVICES VIA YOUTUBE.

HAZEL LEAVES TO CHERISH HER MEMORY HUSBAND, VINCENT, DAUGHTER, MARILYN, AND SON, JOSEPH, SISTER, JEAN SALMON AND MANY GRANDCHILDREN, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, NIECES AND NEPHEWS.  SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER FIRST BORN, VINCENT JR., DAUGHTER, LINDA, AND SON, MICHAEL, HER PARENTS, MARY AND GLADSTONE SALMON, BROTHER, ERROL AND SISTER, IVY.

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