Shirley Kay (McMichael) Craig (2021)

CRAIG, EPPERSON, EVISON, HUDSON, MCMICHAEL, PATTON, TROGDON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:02:59

Powers Funeral Home
Afton, Iowa

Shirley Craig, 72, of Shannon City, died Saturday, July 10, 2021, at the Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.

A Celebration of Life Service will be 10:30 Friday July 16, 2021, at the Powers Funeral Home in Afton. Rev. Jim Morris will officiate. Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery in Afton.

Open visitation will be 3-7 p.m. Thursday July 15, 2021, with the family receiving friends from 5-7 p.m. Thursday at the Powers Funeral Home in Afton. Memorials are kindly suggested to the family. Online condolences can be made at powersfh.com.

Shirley Kay Craig, daughter of Carl Ernest McMichael and Merle Maxine (Evison) McMichael, was born on August 19, 1948, in Winterset, Iowa. She graduated from Interstate 35 High School in 1966.

On June 21, 1968, Shirley was united in marriage to William Dean Craig in Winterset, Iowa. They settled in San Diego, Calif. while Bill was in the military. They returned to Lorimor, Iowa where she worked as an active mother and homemaker. She later began working at Bunn-O-Matic, working in many different departments, and finishing her 28 years there in the wiring department. In 2002 Shirley and Bill purchased their farm in Shannon City. Shirley retired in 2010. Shirley was an active member of the Fred N. Davis Post #96 American Legion Post Ladies Auxiliary. Shirley also enjoyed gardening with her flowers, particularly her African Violets.

Survivors include her husband William Craig of Shannon City; her three children, Susan Craig of Afton, Ia., Michael Craig of Lorimor, Ia. and Brenda (husband Eric) Trogdon of St. Charles, Iowa; 11 grandchildren; 6 great- grandchildren; a brother, Richard (wife Patty) McMichael of Truro, Ia. and a sister-in-law, Edna Epperson of Concho, Ariz.

Shirley was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters, Joyce Patton and Donna Hudson, father and mother-in-law Harold and Nina Craig, three brothers-in-law Walter “Bud” Craig, Arthur Craig and Edgar Craig and a sister-in-law Ona Craig.