CRITZ, Edith L. (1919-1977)

CRITZ

Posted By: Don Boucher (email)
Date: 12/26/2012 at 10:23:40

Obituary from The Winterset Madisonian newspaper, Winterset, Madison County, Iowa, USA on 1-8-1977:

Edith LaVone Critz, 77, of Indianola, died of cancer Jan. 4, 1997 at the Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines. Funeral services were Jan. 7 at Kale Funeral Home in Osceola. Her grandson, Pastor Charles Morris, Jr., and Pastor Doug Helton officiated the services. Burial was at the Young Cemetery in Truro.

She was born in Minnesota on July 11, 1919 to Asher and Edna G. (Kleinbeck) Brand. She married Christopher A. Critz on Jan. 16, 1936 in Creston. She was a homemaker and a former Truro resident. She moved to Indianola in 1990. She was a member of the Grace Church in Des Moines.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; two brothers; and one granddaughter.

Surviving relatives include three daughters, Shirley Herold and husband James of Milo, Betty Jean Swan and husband Ed of Des Moines, and Connie Morris and husband Charles of Indianola; one son, Charles Critz of Creston; two sisters, Margaret Lorraine Saltero of Stockton, Calif., and Mary Alice Davis of Osceola; 11 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.