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Mrs. E.C. Crossman. Over the last High Pass of The Great Divide has gone one of he finest characters in the whole history of American shooting. A keen, capable, out-of-doors woman and hunter, Blanche Crossman was at the same time primarily a home-maker and devoted wife and mother. One of the nation's top-flight shots both in the game field and at targets, she was also one of the West's better known musicians. She possessed to an amazing degree that unusual quality of being essentially and fundamentally feminine, yet being able to mingle with men on the firing line and in the hunting field on a friendly, man-to-man basis - a combination which made her universally welcome, universally admired from the music salons of Hollywood to the Club House at Sea Girt and the ranch house in Oregon. She sang as a soloist and in the choirs of many churches and was the leader of several choirs. She was well known in the concert field and sang for years over the major Los Angeles radio stations. She broke into the shooting game at a time when it was supposed to be a "man's game" and shot her way onto the first American Dewar Team that competed over the present 50 and 100 yard course - that was at Caldwell in 1919. At Detroit in 1937 she tied for the Women's Skeet Championship but dropped into second place on the shoot-off. Prior to the World War she had made several foot and pack trips into the "back country" in Oregon as well as at least two trips into the lower California sheep country. Returning from a dove hunt near Palm Springs, California on Saturday, October 15th, the automobile in which she was riding was struck broad-side by a truck during a blinding dust-storm. Mrs. Crossman suffered a broken neck. For several days there was hope that surgical skill and her great heart might pull her through to eventual recovery, but she died in the Good Samaritan Hospital at Los Angeles on October 21st.
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