[1] Crews considered herself very fortunate to be born into an upper-middle-class family, as well as, parents that allowed her to be outside the Southern belle ideal.

Additionally, Crews was an excellent athlete during her youth, she participated in horseback riding and golf.

Finally, what was originally believed to be pneumonia was actually lung cancer which caused Crews' death on January 14, 2001.

Crews' assignment was to ferry P-47s from the factory to embarkation points to later be moved to war zones.

She was one of the first twenty-eight women to pilot a United States plane in World War II.

[3] Crews' uniform, Mooney Mite, and first logbook are kept at the Southern Museum of Flight in Alabama.