CROWE, William Trotter, 10, a resident of Ramer, Ala., died Wednesday, April 1, 2009, at Children’s Hospital. Funeral services will be held Saturday, April 4, 2009, at Ramer United Methodist Church at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Wesley Syfrett officiating. Burial will follow in Ramer Cemetery.

Trotter was a member of Ramer United Methodist Church. He is preceded in death by his great-grandfather Hubert Frazier, Jr., and great-grandparents Knox and Eleanor Trotter. He is survived by his parents, Knox and Michell Brightwell Crowe, sister Madeline Jane Crowe, grandparents Bobby and Martha Brightwell and Gary and Lyda Crowe, great-grandmothers Linnie Merle Frazier and LaNell T. Crowe, aunts and uncles Michael and Paula Brightwell, Brady and Amy Crowe and Billy and Courtney Whigham, great-aunt Barbara Frazier, cousins Cole, Cason, Caleb and Chance Brightwell, Braden and Ava Crowe, and special loving babysitters Gail B. Kimmons and Bessye Pittman.

Pallbearers will be Knox Crowe, Brady Crowe, Billy Whigham, Michael Brightwell, Yates Cherry and James Littlejohn. Honorary pallbearers will be Trotter’s classmates at Highland Home School.

Visitation will be from 1 until 2 p.m. at the church on Saturday.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Special Needs Class at Highland Home School, 18434 Montgomery Highway, Highland Home, AL 36041.

Leak-Memory Chapel of Montgomery directing.