Bessie L. CRAIG

Enid News and Eagle Enid, Garfield Co., OK

11-06-2008

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

A graveside service for Bessie L. Craig, age 90, will be 1 p.m. today, November 7, 2008, in the Memorial Park Cemetery. Rev. Alan Seibel will officiate. Arrangements are under the direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home.

Bessie was born October 14, 1918, in Howard, KS, to Robert Lester McNair and Gladys Ruth Fear McNair and died in Oklahoma City, OK, November 4, 2008, after a brief illness.

She married Grover M. Craig in Winfield, KS, on July 15, 1941. She received her Associates Nursing Degree in Winfield, KS. She worked as a registered nurse at Kansas Ordnance Plant Hospital in Parsons, KS, and Bass Baptist Hospital in Enid, OK until she became a mother. She then became a stay-at-home mother and homemaker. Her hobbies were sewing, quilting and reading. Also, she enjoyed fishing and dancing with her husband, Grover. For many years she was active in the Enid Extension Homemakers and regularly attended Democratic caucus meetings.

She is survived by her children, Geoffrey Craig and wife, Carole and Melanie Rice and husband, Marc; eight grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and one sister, Ruth Elliott Deloach.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Grover, grandson, Micah Craig and sister, Frances Crank.