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Dr. Arthur «David» Crowe
1923-2023
David Crowe was the
quintessential Valley boy – industrious, resourceful to a fault,
friendly, quiet, and respectful of others. He was raised in Berwick,
lived and worked in Kentville, and later resided in Wolfville for
nearly half a century. David has passed away peacefully, in Greenwich,
at age 99.
Born in a Port
Williams birthing house, descended from multi-generational Nova
Scotians, David was raised on his parents’ farm in North
Berwick. He joined the British Navy during the Second World War, where
he trained to be a pilot. Upon his return to Canada, he enrolled at
the Agricultural College (A.C.) in Truro, and then completed his B.Sc.
and M.Sc. at McGill University in Montreal. While in Montreal he met
and married his wife, Joan. David and Joan returned to Nova Scotia
when their studies were complete, where he accepted employment at the
Kentville Research Station. Following the birth of their two children,
David and Joan moved to Ithaca, New York, where David earned his Ph.D.
from Cornell University. The newly minted Dr. Crowe spent the next 40
years enjoying a robust career at the Kentville Research Station in
the tree fruits section. His research focused on light energy
utilization, rootstock selection, orchard layout, tree training, and
experimentation with new varieties of apples and pears suited to the
climate of Atlantic Canada. A member of the Agricultural Society of
Canada, his work was recognized by the New York Academy of Sciences
and published as far away as Czechoslovakia. Two of his legacies are
the Kestral apple, and the standardized apple bins that are still in
use today. In his «spare time», David operated a farm and
managed orchards for others, where he practiced many of the
Station’s innovations. Some of those years were spent in
partnership with long-time friends Keith and Charlotte Boates. While
David and Joan’s children were at home, the whole family
helped on the farm, but they also spent many hours together on the ski
slopes. International travel became a much-enjoyed vocation. Special
friends Carl and Doris Gourley often joined David and Joan on their
many travels. David’s natural curiosity, love of learning
and frugality led to a life of perpetual puttering, fixing and
improving. His extensive gardens at home and at the cottage were a
particular source of pride in his retirement years. David was an early
volunteer at the United Church of St. Paul and St. Stephen in
Kentville, and he later served on the Park & Shade Tree
Committee for the Town of Wolfville. He held various executive
positions with the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers Association, and he sat
on the boards of the VON, Eastern Kings Memorial Hospital and the
Valley Regional Hospital. David’s benevolent nature led him
to establish the A. David Crowe Family Foundation for charitable
giving, a portion of which focuses on the Dr. A. David Crowe Graduate
Scholarship, the «largest and most prestigious Ph.D. scholarship
at the Faculty of Agriculture», for the encouragement of higher
education in the field of agriculture. Awarded annually to a student
at Dalhousie’s Agricultural Campus in Truro, his scholarship
has, to date, funded the school’s very first Ph.D. student,
as well as sponsoring other research in the field of partnership links
between medicine and agriculture. David enjoyed a friendly,
competitive, game of bridge and enjoyed telling the story of the games
when he first met Joan at college. He was a long-time member of the
Wolfville Curling Club where cribbage was often the second game of the
day. He was always active, always fit, and at the age of 95 skipped
the Wolfville Curling Club to victory in the Maritime invitational
McLellan Cup.
Arthur
«David» Crowe was predeceased by his wife, Margery
«Joan» (Cunningham) Crowe; his parents, John Congdon Crowe
and Hilda (Hockin) Crowe; sister, «Connie» Adams and
brother-in-law, Ralph Adams; infant sister, Lillian Ruth, and cousin
(«almost a brother») Alan and Esther Hockin.
David is survived by
sister-in-law, Phyllis McKibbin; son, David «Vance» (Michal)
Crowe; daughter, Phyllis (Ron Best) Crowe; grandchildren, Stephanie
(John) Peskett, Kerry (Amanda) Coolen, Colleen (Drew) Carruthers;
great-grandchildren Tyler and Mitchell Peskett, Kae and Violet Coolen,
Cameron David and Aria Carruthers; as well as many important nieces
and nephews, whose exploits and updates he followed closely. Many
thanks to the caring staff at Shannex Blomidon Court in Greenwich, for
their compassion and the respect shown to David in the last months of
his life.
In keeping with
David’s wishes, his body has been donated to medical
research, so there will be no interment at this time. A donation to
the A. David Crowe Scholarship is an option (giving.dal.ca/crowescholarship),
but any charity of your choice is very likely to be one that David
himself supported. A celebration of life, followed by a reception,
will be held in the White Family Funeral Home, Kentville, on Friday,
February 10, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. Funeral arrangements have been
entrusted to the White Family Funeral Home and Cremation Services,
Kentville.
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