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Household of Mary Ruth Griffin Crafton

She is married to George Raymond Crafton.

They got married on August 22, 1942 at Henderson County, Kentucky, she was 19 years old.


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    Mary Ruth Crafton
    BIRTH29 Jun 1923
    DEATH24 Feb 2017 (aged 93)
    Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
    BURIAL
    Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    Henderson County, Kentucky, USA
    MEMORIAL ID73169159 · View Source
    MEMORIAL
    PHOTOS 1
    FLOWERS 0
    Mary Ruth Crafton, 93, a lifelong resident of the Niagara, Kentucky, community, died Friday, February 24, 2017, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

    She was a member of Niagara United Methodist Church, where she served as pianist for more than 30 years. Mary graduated from Niagara High School in 1940 and attended Western Kentucky State Teachers College. She taught home economics and science for 10 years at Niagara High School where she opened the first school lunch program. During WWII, she supervised the “Victory Gardens” in the county. She was an active 4-H Club member and volunteered as a 4-H leader for 25 years. Mary was also a member of Niagara Homemakers Club for more than 25 years, serving as president two different terms.

    Mary Ruth was an active farm wife, and she was very involved in the farm community, writing the Henderson County Farm Bureau newsletter for 20 years and serving as Farm News Director for WSON Radio for six years. She was active in the local, district, and state Farm Bureau Women’s Auxiliary and was honored for 37 years of service on the Soil Conservation Auxiliary. She was a Kentucky Colonel.

    She was preceded in death by her husband of 49 years, George R. Crafton, who died July 24, 1991.

    Survivors include one daughter, Paula Crafton Swartz; one grandson, Ryan Paul Swartz; and two great-grandchildren, all of Scottsdale, Arizona.

    Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Rudy-Rowland Funeral Home. The Reverend Dan Book will officiate. Burial will be in Pleasant Valley Cemetery in Robards, Kentucky.

    Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until service time Thursday at the funeral home.

    Contributions may be made to Niagara Methodist Church or Shriners Hospitals for Children, 1900 Richmond Road, Lexington, KY 40502.

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    George Crafton
    George Raymond Crafton
    1923–1991

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    Maintained by: Brecca Mefford
    Originally Created by: Lynn Fischer
    Added: 10 Jul 2011
    Find a Grave Memorial 73169159
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Historical events

Birthday June 29, 1923

  • The temperature on June 29, 1923 was between 7.2 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
    • January 9 » Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
    • April 15 » Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
    • April 26 » The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
    • May 26 » The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June.
    • June 18 » Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
    • September 29 » The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon takes effect.

Day of marriage August 22, 1942

  • The temperature on August 22, 1942 was between 14.6 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
    • February 1 » Mao Zedong makes a speech on "Reform in Learning, the Party and Literature", which puts into motion the Yan'an Rectification Movement.
    • February 1 » World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
    • September 15 » World War II: U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USSWasp is sunk by Japanese torpedoes at Guadalcanal.
    • September 21 » The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.
    • October 6 » World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal.
    • November 8 » World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.

Day of death February 24, 2017

  • The temperature on February 24, 2017 was between -0.6 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 26, 2017 to present the cabinet Rutte III, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2017: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 17.1 million citizens.
    • January 6 » Five people are killed and six others injured in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida.
    • April 6 » U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage US-Russia ties.
    • April 9 » The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, take place.
    • May 12 » The WannaCry ransomware attack impacts over 400 thousand computers worldwide, targeting computers of the United Kingdom's National Health Services and Telefónica computers.
    • May 27 » Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
    • August 25 » Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. Over the next few days, the storm causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of eastern Texas, killing 106 people and causing $125billion in damage.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1922 » John William Vessey, Jr., American general († 2016)
  • 1922 » Ralph Burns, American songwriter, bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and pianist († 2001)
  • 1922 » Vasko Popa, Serbian poet and academic († 1991)
  • 1923 » Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer and educator († 2019)
  • 1924 » Ezra Laderman, American composer and educator († 2015)
  • 1924 » Roy Walford, American pathologist and gerontologist († 2004)

Source: Wikipedia


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