Robert Crespino Jr.

Robert Crespino Jr. of Macon, a loyal friend and devoted family
member who had a creative, whimsical spirit, died Wednesday, May 25,
2011. He was forty-one.

Born on May 7, 1970 in Jackson, Mississippi, he is the son
of Robert Crespino and Barbara Hardin Crespino. He possessed a facility
with the English language that could be seen at an early age. As a twelve
year old, he and
a friend started a newspaper, The Weekly Globe, out of the upstairs
storage space in the back of his father¹s store that published local news
and commentary for nearly two years.

He was a 1988 graduate of Central Academy in Macon, where he
wrote an original screenplay for the class play in both his junior and
senior
years. He attended East Mississippi Junior College for a time before
working at newspapers in Louisville and West Point.

A person with quirky but charming interests, he began watching
the soap opera Days of Our Lives as a teenager and followed it with near
religious devotion, missing only a handful of episodes over a twenty-five
year period. Benson and Hedges menthol cigarettes and Belinda Carlisle
albums were other enduring favorites.

In his final years he tended faithfully to his ailing grandmother and
great aunt at a time when his own parents¹ poor health made it difficult
for them to do so.

He precedes in death his grandmother, Dorothy Adams Hardin
of Macon, his father Robert Crespino of Madison, his sister Mary Lou
Mitchener
and brother-in-law Keven of Macon, his brother Joe Crespino and
sister-in-law
Caroline Herring Crespino of Decatur, Georgia, and five nieces and nephews.

Memorials can be made to Central Academy in Macon, or to the
Mississippi State Summer Scholars on Stage Program, contact person Joe Ray
Underwood at 662.323.8969, or by email at [email protected] .