Booneville woman Angela Marie Mullins Crowe laid to rest in Owsley County

Angela Marie Mullins Crowe was laid to rest in Combs Cemetery in Owsley County after services at Searcy and Strong Funeral Home in Booneville, a final farewell that brought her story back to the county where so many of her family ties remain rooted.

The service was held April 15, and James Morris officiated. For a county where Booneville serves as the seat and funeral homes still anchor family milestones, the burial marked more than an end to an obituary notice. It placed Crowe’s life back among the places and people that know the Mullins and Shouse names well.

Crowe, 43, died April 11 at The Heights Rehabilitation & Health Care Center in Broadview Heights, Ohio, after a long illness. She had been born Oct. 26, 1982, in Hazard, Kentucky, to Patricia Gail Shouse Mullins and the late Roger Mullins. The obituary also noted that she was preceded in death by her husband, Jason Crowe, along with her father and grandfathers, G.B. Shouse and Ed Mullins.

Her survivors include her son, Dalton Vires; her mother, Gail “Jerry Marshall” Mullins; her brother, Asher Keller; her grandchildren, Grayson and Emersyn Vires; her half-brother, Hunter Mullins of Booneville; and her grandmothers, Mabel Shouse of Booneville and Lois Jean Mullins of Jackson. Those names place Crowe inside a web of family links that stretches across eastern Kentucky and reaches back into Owsley County communities that still mark life’s biggest moments through homecomings, services and burials.

That connection carries added weight in a county organized on Jan. 23, 1843, where Booneville remains the center of civic and community life. Owsley County had a 2020 census population of 4,051, making it the second-least populous county in Kentucky, and local institutions often serve families spread across multiple states. Searcy & Strong Funeral Home says it has served Booneville and surrounding communities for more than 50 years, a reminder of how often the town is where relatives return when it is time to gather, remember and bury their dead.