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   Samuel Crossley: History professor, church youth director DallasNews.com | Dallas-Fort Worth | Obituaries
   
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   Samuel Crossley: History professor, church youth director
   
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   Graveside services were Wednesday for Samuel Crossley, a college instructor and longtime youth director at United Methodist churches who died Saturday of complications from lymphoma in Grapevine.
   
   Services for Dr. Crossley, 78, were at Bluebonnet Hill Memorial Park in Colleyville.
   
   Dr. Crossley was an American history professor for the community college systems in Dallas and Tarrant counties for more than 20 years. He was an expert on the Civil War and American presidents, his family said.
   
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   Dr. Crossley was involved with Methodist churches, serving locally as a youth director and minister of education for Dallas-Fort Worth area congregations.
   
   Dr. Crossley, born in Macon, Ga., earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Mercer University. He later earned a bachelor of divinity degree from Emory University in Atlanta and a doctorate degree from the institution now known as the University of North Texas in 1983.
   
   He began his church career in the late 1940s as youth director of First Methodist Church in Albany, Ga. At the same time, he served on the Georgia Governor's Council for Youth, his family said.
   
   In 1950, Dr. Crossley joined First Methodist Church in Fort Worth, where he served as youth director and district youth director and hosted a weekly television show on WBAP-TV, now KXAS-TV (Channel 5). He also was active in the building of the church's youth center, his family said.
   
   He married in 1956, two years before moving to San Antonio to serve as a director of education at Travis Park United Methodist Church. He returned to the area in 1961, becoming minister of education at University Park United Methodist Church.
   
   In the early 1970s, Dr. Crossley began teaching at El Centro College in downtown Dallas. He later taught at Tarrant County College's Northeast Campus in Hurst and Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. He retired in the early 1990s.
   
   Dr. Crossley is survived by his daughter, Elizabeth Crossley Draper of Colleyville, and two grandchildren.