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James Robert âJimâ Crea
James Robert âJimâ Crea, 86, of Fayetteville, passed away Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at Grady Hospital Trauma Center in Atlanta. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina to the late John and Caroline Crea.
When Jim graduated from College Park High School, he attended Valdosta State College for one year before joining the U.S. Army, serving from 1954-1957. During this time, he spent a year on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska where he was a Morse code interceptor.
After his military service, he held a variety of jobs, including loading milk trucks for Sealtest Foods in Atlanta, managing a Shell Oil Company gas station in College Park, and eventually joining Northwest Airlines in 1965 as a ramp agent, first at OâHare Airport in Chicago and then at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta. He retired from Northwest in 1993.