86, died Sunday, January 8, 2017 at Saint Clare Hospital in Fenton, Missouri following a difficult battle with a failing heart. He will join his wife of 68 years, Maggie (Sneed) Crouch in eternal life together. He leaves his sister, Connie Crouch (Doyle); his son Don Crouch and wife, Connie; his son Ron Crouch and wife, Sharon; grandson, Scott Crouch and wife Danielle; grandson Jeff Crouch; 5 great-grandchildren, Cole, Max, Natalie, Cami, and Easton; cousins, nieces, nephews and many close friends.
Born in Strawberry, Arkansas, the son of Arthur “Ott” and Elmer Crouch (Milligan), he met and married his high school sweetheart, Maggie, at a young age before they embarked on a wonderful life together. Robert “Tex” Crouch worked as an iron-worker all over the United States as a young man, family in tow, before settling into the Saint Louis area where he helped to build many well-known structures such as the medical campus at St. Louis University and the Gateway Arch. He became a meat cutter, owning and operating several grocery stores in St. Louis, working closely with his wife and sons in the family business. What began as a hobby when he was young, Robert “Dub” Crouch mastered the banjo and formed a bluegrass band known around the world as Dub Crouch and the Bluegrass Rounders. He love music and furthered bluegrass locally by helping to found Missouri Area Bluegrass Committee. Although he could not attend, he was honored this past weekend by the Missouri Bluegrass Preservation Association as a “Pioneer of Missouri Bluegrass Music”, his final award among hundreds. Dub was a hardworking, down to earth, loving family man who put a smile into the hearts of everyone he met. He will be deeply missed but never forgotten.
Services: Visitation will be Tuesday, January 10, 2017 from 4 to 8 p.m. at KUTIS AFFTON CHAPEL, 10151 Gravois Rd., St. Louis, MO 63123, with burial ceremony beginning at Kutis Funeral Home, Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. followed by a procession to Saint Trinity Cemetery, 2160 Lemay Ferry Rd., St. Louis, MO 63125 []