Carol Jane Crowley, 93

Carol Jane Crowley, a lifelong Bridgehampton resident who grew up on a potato farm on Scuttlehole Road, died at the age of 93 on Nov. 1 at home on Lumber Lane.

Born two days before the Fourth of July in 1922 at Southampton Hospital to Alonzo Raymond Young and the former Wynola Conklin, Mrs. Crowley’s roots went back to the earliest settlers on the East End. She drove a truck on the farm while still a child, her daughter, Lynn Cotter, said yesterday, recalling  one of her mother’s favorite stories about the time she ran a truck into a gulley, dumping all the potatoes, and then running all the way home. The family eventually left the farm, moving to Lumber Lane.

During the summer, the family took advantage of the proximity of the beach, setting up camp at the end of Ocean Road in Bridgehampton with sleeping and cooking tents, photographs reveal. 

After graduating from Southampton High School, she attended Centenary College in Hackettstown, N.J., graduating with an associate’s degree.

In 1943, she and William A. Crowley were married, and they settled in a house on Bridgehampton’s Hildreth Avenue, where they raised three children, all of whom survive: Ms. Cotter, who lives in East Hampton, Elizabeth Bahret of Murrells Inlet, S.C., and Terry Crowley of Sagaponack. 

Ms. Cotter said her mother loved gardening and cooking and had been a waitress in some of East Hampton’s best restaurants, such as Gordon’s and the Maidstone Arms.

Mrs. Crowley was a lifetime member of the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, where she had at one time served as a deacon, and where a funeral service was held on Nov. 3. She was buried in Edgewood Cemetery in Bridgehampton.