KNERR, Alvina Mae (CRAWFORD), 1936-1959

KNERR, CRAWFORD, GOHN, STIGERS, WRIGHT, HILLER, HESSELTINE

Posted By: Betty Hootman (email)
Date: 2/21/2012 at 11:56:53

Washington (IA) Evening Journal
21 May 1959

Mrs. Jack Knerr dies In Iowa City Hospital

BRIGHTON --- A 23 year-old mother of three small children, Mrs. Jack Knerr of Brighton, died at 1 a.m. today, May 1, 1959, in the University Hospital in Iowa City. She had been ill for the past eight months, suffering from a brain tumor.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Gould Funeral Home in Brighton with the Rev. Roger Williams, pastor of the Methodist Church there, in charge. Burial will be in the Hillcrest Cemetery.

The former Alvena May Crawford was born Feb. 15, 1936, at Fairfield, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Crawford. She was reared and educated in Washington.

On May 29, 1954, she was married to Jack Knerr in Riverside. They lived in the Brighton community since that time.

She is survived by her husband and three small children, Harold, Diane and Jackeline.

Other survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Crawford of Washington; eight sisters, Mrs. Oliver Gohn, Jr., of Fairfield, Mrs. Fred F. Stigers of DeRidder, La., Mrs. James Wright of Bettendorf, Mrs. Richard Knerr of Solon,, and Mrs. Raymond Hiller, Mrs. Charles Hesseltine, Mary Crawford and Margaret Crawford, all of Washington; two brothers, John and Thomas Crawford, both of Washington; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by a brother, Harold Edward Crawford, who was killed in the Korean War.