Preliminary arrangements have been made with Mullins and Thompson Funeral Home. The service will be held at the Fredericksburg Chapel at 10:30 on Friday morning. "She enjoyed her career in journalism and appreciated being a member of the Virginia Press Women," Virginia wrote.
Mrs. Crookshanks was VPW's 2010 Communicator of Achievement, which honored her long journalism career including work at the Ladies Home Journal, the Free Lance-Star, the Fredericksburg/Tideland Times, and Virginia Horse Racing: Triumphs of the Turf, the latter a book published in 2008 by the History Press, which she co-authored with her daughter.
"I used to write stories for the Fredericksburg Times in high school with the understanding that she would show me/explain to me edits. After a while I didn't need very many," Virginia wrote. "She also wrote stories exclusively for the Central Rappahannock Regional Library's history page as well as the FLS's Town and County in very recent years. We were contemplating a book on coaching (stage coaches, etc.) in the 18th and 19th centuries at the time of her passing."
Communicator of Achievement Nomination
Like many journalists, Barbara Crookshanks quietly pursued her passion for journalism, never seeking the spotlight. And like many other journalists, she never seemed to find a stopping point.
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