Russell Crawford Jr., BS Med ’75, 67, of Deer River, Minn., and formerly of Grand Forks, N.D., died Sept. 14 at the Deer River Health Care Center. He was born March 29, 1943, in St. James, Minn., the son of Russell S. Sr. and Agnes (Hallameck) Crawford. He was raised in Grand Forks, attending St. Michael’s Grade School and graduating from St. James High School in 1961. He received his Bachelor of Arts in History from Yale University in 1966. During summers in college, he worked as a brakeman on the Great Northern Railway in North Dakota. Following college graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and served five years as a pilot during the Vietnam era. He was honorably discharged as a captain from the Air Force in 1972. He and Marcie Windler married in September 1968 in Sweeny, Texas. She died in December 1971. Upon leaving the Air Force, he returned to Grand Forks and enrolled at the University of North Dakota to complete a year of premed classes. He attended medical school at UND for two years before transferring to Baylor College of Medicine (Houston) and graduating in 1977. He completed his medical internship in Fresno, Calif., where he met Donna Skoegard Brannon. They married June 27, 1980, after he finished his residency in emergency medicine at Oregon Health Science University in Portland. He practiced emergency medicine in Portland for almost 20 years. Russ and Donna decided to move to the north woods of Minnesota in 1997, and he worked in emergency medicine at Fairview University Medical Center-Mesabi in Hibbing, Minn., for three years before retiring in 2000.