Songa Ellaner Dean Crews
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Songa Ellaner Dean Crews, 76, of Baxley, passed away Friday, October 3, 2025, at Memorial Health Meadows in Vidalia. Mrs. Crews was born January 11, 1949 in Appling County to the late Dudley A. Dean and the late Sadie Marie (McNeal) Dean. She was a loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She was a retired seamstress from ship-n-shore. Songa loved to work in her garden and was a great softball player. She was preceded in death by sisters, Lois Marie Dean, Carolyn Watson, and Marilyn Hiers; brothers, Elwood Dean, Edward Dean, Van Allen Dean, Dudley Dean Jr., and Stanford Dean.
Survivors include her husband, Lucius C. Crews, III; sons, Lucius Crews, IV of Baxley, and Stacy Wayne Crews of Baxley; sisters, Sandra Turner of Baxley, and Jennifer Dean Snyder of Florida; brother, Randy Dean of New York; five grandchildren, Lucius (Michell Escamilla) Crews, Morgan (Bradley) Lust, Tyler (Marissa) Crews, Syles (Maranda) Teston and Raylee Farley and six great grandchildren, Katherine Crews, Elena Crews, Lincoln Lust, Bailey Lust, Syles Teston, Jr. and Sawyer Teston.
Graveside services were held on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. at Ten Mile Creek Baptist Church Cemetery with the Rev. Joe Ferguson officiating. Active pallbearers were Lucius C. Crews, V, Tyler Crews, Syles Teston, Hunter Yawn, Benny Crews, and B. J. Crews.
Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Swain Funeral Home.
