 1921 - 2004 (83 years)
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| Name |
Charles Harold Crane [1] |
| Birth |
19 Feb 1921 |
Rainelle, Greenbrier County, WV  [2, 3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
13 Dec 2004 |
Beverly Health Care [4] |
- Obituary -- Charles Harold Crane
CRAWLEY -- Charles Harold Crane, 83, died after an extended illness on Monday, Dec. 13, 2004, at Beverly Health Care in Glasgow, W.Va.
He was preceded in death by his loving wife, Elsie Murphy Crane; and his parents, Charles Kenna and Clara Janet Crane, all formerly of Crawley.
He is survived by his two daughters, Janet Tharp and her husband, Bill, of Glasgow, and Patricia Wojciechowski and her husband, Don, of Jacksonville, Fla.; his two grandchildren, Melissa Buckley and her husband, Shane, of Glasgow and Patrick Jorgensen of Southampton, England; and his three great-granddaughters, Alexis, Laura and Rachel Buckley of Glasgow.
Mr. Crane was a member of the Big Clear Creek Baptist Church in Rupert, and was retired from Westmoreland Coal Company in Quinwood after 33 years of service.
He was a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army, serving in the European Theater of Operations during World War II and participated in the landing at Normandy on D-Day.
Mr. Crane had also been a member of the Masonic Lodge in Rainelle.
Services will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Cooke Funeral Home Chapel, Cedar Grove, with the Rev. John Massey officiating. Entombment will follow the services at Kanawha Valley Memorial Gardens at Glasgow. Friends may call two hours prior to the service on Thursday at the Cooke Funeral Home, 600 Old Fort St., Cedar Grove. Cooke Funeral Home, Cedar Grove, is in charge of the arrangements
The Beckley Register-Herald, Online Edition, 15 December 2004
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| Burial |
16 Dec 2013 |
Kanawha Valley Memorial Gardens [4] |
| Person ID |
I2653 |
Crane Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
15 Nov 2022 |
| Father |
Charles Kenna Crane, b. 5 Jan 1894, Crawley, Greenbrier County, WV d. 15 Feb 1976, Beckley, Raleigh County, WV (Age 82 years) |
| Mother |
Clara Janet Froenfalker, b. 15 Oct 1905, Maryland d. 10 Dec 1985, Crawley, Greenbrier County, WV (Age 80 years) |
| Marriage |
28 Jul 1920 |
Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, WV [5] |
| Family ID |
F838 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Elsie Lorraine Murphy, b. 9 Jan 1924, Pageton, McDowell County, WV d. 26 Dec 2002, Montgomery, Fayette County, WV (Age 78 years) |
| Marriage |
29 Nov 1945 |
Rainelle, Greenbrier County, WV [6] |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F839 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
14 Jan 2017 |
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| Sources |
- [S824] Obituary, Crane, Charles Kenna, (Greenbrier Independent; February 19, 1976), 2 Sep 2013 (Reliability: 2).
- [S630] Obituary, Murphy, Elsie, (Beckly Register-Herald Obtained December 28, 2002 from Karen Kessler Cottrill), 5047.
- [S243] Marriage Record: CRANE, Mary Louise & MORTON, John Johnson, 15.
Book 20, Page 169, Year of 1945.
- [S810] Obituary, Crane, Charles Harold, (Beckley Register Herald), 28 Aug 2013 (Reliability: 2).
- [S243] Marriage Record: CRANE, Mary Louise & MORTON, John Johnson, 14 Jan 2017, 15. (Reliability: 3).
Charles Crane & Clara Fraunfelker; Book 4, Page 26, Year of 1920.
- [S243] Marriage Record: CRANE, Mary Louise & MORTON, John Johnson, 14 Jan 2017, 15. (Reliability: 3).
Book 20, Page 169, Year of 1945.
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