Lola Roberta Craft passed from this life Monday, September 30, 2002, in Comanche County Hospital at the age of seventy-eight. She was born December 6, 1923, to William Larry and Margorie Alice Tate. She and Junior William Craft were united in marriage on May 21, 1946, in Mansfield, Ohio. Mrs. Craft was a member of the Freewill Baptist Church and was a homemaker.
Survivors include: her husband Junior William Craft, of the home in Comanche, OK; three sons - Larry J. Craft of Moore, OK, Timothy A. Craft of Rockwall, TX, and William Jay Craft of Ontario, OH; one daughter - Melodye S. Archer of Duncan, OK; one brother - Willard L. Tate of Mansfield, OH; four sisters - Lela Shelton of Bellville, OH, Eula Robey of Bellville, OH, Trula Lee Ashley of Mansfield, OH, and Gertrude Griffiths of Mansfield, OH; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents and one brother.
Funeral services for Mrs. Craft were at 11:00 AM, Thursday, October 3, 2002, in the Dudley Funeral Home Chapel in Comanche with David Gardner officiating. Burial was in the Fairlawn Cemetery under the direction of Dudley Funeral Home of Comanche.