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Elsie Willson Crawford 1875 - 1965

WILLSON, CRAWFORD

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/24/2021 at 22:08:24

Sioux City Journal
14 September 1965

Funeral services for Mrs. Wesley A. Crawford, 89, Moville, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Eldredge Memorial Evangelical United Brethren Church at Moville.

Mrs. Crawford, a resident of the Moville community for almost three-quarters of a century, died Monday at her farm home near Moville.

The Rev. Dale W. Church will conduct the services. Burial will be in Rock Branch Cemetery at Correctionville under the direction of the Mcculloch Funeral Home.

Mrs. Crawford, the former Elsie Willson, was born Oct. 23, 1875, at Cleveland, Ill., and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Garrett A. Willson. As a girl she moved to Lineville, Iowa, to live with her grandparents following the deaths of her mother and father.

She was married to Wesley A. Crawford of Moville at Lineville on Dec. 27, 1893. Mr. Crawford died in 1938. Mrs. Crawford had lived on the same farm seven miles southeast of Moville for nearly 73 years. She was a member of the Eldredge Memorial EUB Church,

Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Magnus D. Christensen of Madison, Wis., and Mrs. Rufus R. Spurrell of Watertown, S.D.; a son, Lyle R. Crawford of Moville; 15 grandchildren and 40 great-grandchildren.


 

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