Crenshaw attended Hawkinsville schools for twelve years in the same building playing baseball, football and basketball, the three sports the school offered in those days. The highlight of his school days was when he played a small role on the football team that won 31 straight regular season games and two straight undefeated State Championships. He was second team Center and Linebacker until he became a Senior, making the first team at both positions.
After he finished high school, he joined the Navy where he served as a member of a flight crew, with the responsibility of operating radar scopes. He served on Guam for a year and a half and Hawaii for six months, flying extensively to Japan, Okinawa, the Phillipines, Midway Island and Alaska.
Completing three plus years in the Navy, Crenshaw returned to Hawkinsville. For a period of eight years, he worked for the government, mostly as an Electronics Repairer.
In 1964, Crenshaw married Sheila Smith of Jacksonville, Florida, and they have six adult children living in Georgia, Ohio and Montana. They also have ten grandchildren. While working for the government, Crenshaw attended Middle Georgia College completing his Associates Degree in Business Administration.
For over thirty years, Crenshaw was a sales representative selling everything from toasters and vacuum cleaners to commercial lawn mowers, finally retiring in 2001. Over sixty years old, he was still trying to figure out what he wanted to be when he grew up, and he got a chance to begin writing a column, From the Cotton Patch, for the local newspaper in Cochran, Georgia adding the Hawkinsville Dispatch & News with his column a year later. He authors a feature article weekly for the Dispatch & News, while offering his services for freelance work to magazines. He authored a book consisting of stories from his childhood all the way through the current episodes of his life, leaning toward humor and nostalgia. The offering of this web site he has named, appropriately enough, From the Cotton Patch.
