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Franklin E. Crawford,
age 70 of Virginia Avenue, Butler, Pennsylvania, died Sunday, August
14, 2005 at 2:15 p.m. in the Butler VA Medical Center.
Born November 26, 1934
in Butler, Pennsylvania he was the son of the late Thomas A. Crawford
and the late Helen Schrobel.
Mr. Crawford was a
retired painter for Butler Veterans Administration Medical Center.
He was protestant by faith. Mr. Crawford was a veteran of the U. S. Navy
and Korean War. He was past president of the General Butler Vagabonds
Auxiliary. He was a member of the Moose Lodge #64, Masonic Lodge #272
F & AM, A.A.S.R. Valley of New Castle, and V.F.W. Post #249, Butler.
Mr. Crawford is
survived by his wife, Helen Lowry Crawford whom he married on May 12,
1956, by one son, Robert T. Crawford of Connoquenessing, Pennsylvania;
one daughter, Susan Crede of Butler, Pennsylvania; three
grandchildren, four sisters, Marie Miller, Betty Cipolla, Joan Fend
all of Butler, Pennsylvania, Joyce Norman of Tampa, Florida and by a
number of nieces and nephews.
Mr. Crawford was
preceded in death by one brother.
Friends will be
received at the Thompson-Miller Funeral Home, Inc., 124 East North
Street, Butler, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, August 16, 2005 from 2 to 4
and 7 to 9 p.m.
Services will be held
at the Thompson - Miller Funeral Home, Inc. on Wednesday, August 17,
2005 at 1:00 p.m. with Reverend Henry B. Hall, Jr., chief of chaplains
at the VA Medical Center officiating. Interment will follow in
Greenlawn Burial Estates.
Officers and
members of the Masonic Lodge #272 will meet Tuesday at 6:45 p.m. at
the funeral home to conduct a memorial service. Military Honors will
be conducted at Greenlawn Burial Estates by V.F.W. Post #249. |
A Life Remembered . . .