AMBROSE A. GRAVER, Jr. 1929-2003

NOLAN, GRAVER, DIEL, THEISER

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 2/24/2004 at 21:21:30

Ambrose A. Graver, Jr.

Telegraph Herald - Dec 27, 2003

Ambrose A. Graver, Jr., 74, of Raytown, Mo., formerly of Dubuque, died Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2003, at Research Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, Raytown. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Sheil Colonial Funeral Home, Kansas City, where there will be a rosary at 4 p.m.

He was born on Aug. 22, 1929, in Dubuque, son of Ambrose A., Sr. and Mary Margaret (Nolan) Graver. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School in 1948.

He married Virginia Rose Diel on April 22, 1961, at St. Peter's Catholic Church, Marshall, Mo.

He was a retired Army captain after 22 years of service.

He came to the Kansas City area in 1959. He began employment in 1960 working in machine maintenance at Western Electric, Lee's Summit, retiring in 1987 after 27½ years of service.

He was a member of Local Union 6360 of Communications Workers of America and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, where he served as choir member and parish council member. He was a 3rd and 4th degree member of the Knights of Columbus Council 4962; Cub Pack and Boy Scout Troop 283, where he served as Webelos leader, assistant scout master, committee member and a proud father of three Eagle Scouts. He also was an Honorary Warrior of the Mic-O-Say Tribe.

Among his favorite hobbies were woodworking, camping, fishing with his family and watching Chiefs football.

Surviving are his wife, Virginia Graver, of Raytown; sons and daughters-in-law, Stephen A. and Sarah Graver, of Malta Bend, Mo., and their children, Shane and Ryan, Timothy C. and Michele Graver, of Boise, Idaho, and their children, Alisha, Carl and Pierce, and Joseph E. and Annette Graver, of Independence, Mo., and their children, Andrew and Elizabeth; a sister, Rosemary Theiser, of Fort Worth, Texas; a brother, Charles Graver, of Dubuque; and several nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be given to Boy Scout Troop 283, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, the Diabetes Association and The American Heart Association.