Bob Crofoot has been An 83 year life-long resident of Livingston county.  He grew up on the family farm in Fowlerville, and graduated from Fowlerville High School in 1940.  He had a farming deferment from World War II, but voluntarily gave it up and joined the Marine Corps in 1945.  After boot camp training at Paris Island, South Carolina and a couple of short stops along the way, he served his permanent assignment at the U.S. Navy Disciplinary Barracks in San Pedro, California.  He was a Military Policeman (MP) there at the Master of Arms Shack primarily transporting prisoners during the dishonorable discharge process.  He was released from active duty in August 1946, and returned to Fowlerville.
In September 1947 Bob married Virginia Lang, and they had a son Tom in 1948 and a daughter Jane in 1953.  From 1950 to 1968 he was self-employed transporting milk in large cans from county farms to the Twin Pines Dairy in Detroit and the Heatherwood Farms Dairy in Lansing.  From 1968 to 1982 he drove a concrete hauler truck for D & J Gravel in Howell, and from 1983 to 1986 for Brighton Block & Concrete.  From 1988 until 2004 he worked part-time at the Country Lane Flower Shop in Howell.  During this time they sold the family farm in Fowlerville and lived in a house in the Howell area, and then moved back to a small farm south of Fowlerville where Bob still lives today.  His wife Virginia died in 1976. Bob joined the Marine Corps League David Murnighan Detachment in Howell as a charter member in 1972, and has been a continuous member and has participated in community activities ever since. 

He has served as the Detachments Chaplin for the last five years, and is currently serving in that position.  Also for the last five years he is the person funeral directors call when a family requests a local military funeral honor guard for their deceased veteran.  He contacts members of the Detachment and arranges an honor guard and serves in it himself for the funeral and/or burial.  The Detachment honor guard is always impressive in their blue and red uniforms, and they by far perform the most military funeral honors in the county, sometimes two a day, and three or four a week.  They fold the American flag covering the veterans coffin, present it to the next of kin, perform a firing detail, and play bugle ATaps.@   In heat and cold, rain and snow, Bob always comes through with the arrangements, and is there for a veterans funeral or burial.