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Mary Carmignani Crenshaw, 82, died Thursday, March 28, 2002. Mrs. Crenshaw was born in Albuquerque, N.M. She graduated from Gallup High School in Gallup, N.M., as a valedictorian and received an academic scholarship to the University of New Mexico. She was a member of the Mortar Board and the Key Club honorary sororities. She graduated in 1941 and joined the Navy immediately after Pearl Harbor. As a Navy WAVE, she received training at Harvard University where she was one of the first female students at the previously all-male school. She became an air traffic controller at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station and worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority in Chattanooga, TN. After World War II, she received her master's degree from Columbia University, where she met and married Joseph Crenshaw in 1950. They had lived in Tallahassee since 1960. Mary was an accomplished potter and stained glass artist. She was an analyst for the State of Florida Legislative Regulatory and Reform Committee in Tallahassee for 20 years. Most recently, she had attended the Senior Academy at Florida State University. She is survived by a son, William Donald Crenshaw of Tallahassee; a daughter, Helen Camille Crenshaw Holt of New Orleans; two brothers, Lawrence R. Carmignani of Artesia, Calif., and Robert Carmignani, D.D.S., of Albuquerque; and a sister, Josephine Carmignani Richards. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1995.
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