Kraft, Miss Virginia 1915-1950

KRAFT, SCHNEIDER

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 3/21/2009 at 18:30:19

DEATH RESULT OF HEART ATTACK

Miss Virginia Kraft, 34, was found dead in bed Sunday at the home of her aunt, Miss Dora Schneider.

Virginia Kraft was born on June 28, 1915, at Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was the daughter of Julias and Elizabeth Kraft, both of whom have preceded her in death. Of her immediate family, a brother Raymond Kraft of New Orleans, La., survives. In August of 1948, shortly after the death of her mother, Miss Kraft came to live with her aunt, Miss Dora Schneider, who resides northeast of Hinton.

Miss Kraft was received into the membership of the Merrill-Melbourne Evangelical United Brethren church on April 17, 1949, by transfer of letter from St. John’s Cathedral of the Episcopal Church in Albuquerque.

Early in the morning on Sunday, Feb. 26, she passed into the presence and care of her loving Lord, whom she knew as Savior and friend.

Funeral services were Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Melbourne Evangelical United Brethren church with Rev. Darald E. Eller officiating and burial was in the cemetery at Melbourne.

~Source: The Hinton Progress, March 2, 1950