Bessie Belle VIERS

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Obituary (src.: Unknown, 29 May 1984)

Mrs. Bessie Belle Crane, 88, of Renick died Saturday, May 26 in Humana Hospital Greenbrier Valley, Fairlea, following a long illness.

Born June 24, 1896, in Dickerson County, Va., she was the daughter of the late Pleasant and Mineva Cochran Viers.

Mrs. Crane was a lifelong resident of Renick and a member of the Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church of Ronceverte.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Irene Cohenour, and a brother, Walter Viers.

Survivors include a stepmother, Ethel Viers of Lewisburg; three daughters, Ina Franklin of Dover, Pa., Christina Mills of Brookston, Ind. and Macel Williams of Renick; five sons, Orville Crane of Renick, Alstin Crane of Clintonville and Garland, Lanford and Harold Crane, all of Lewisburg; four sisters, Myrtle George of Baltimore, Md., Eva Price of Gallipolis, Ohio, Mary Viers of Abington, Va. And Edna Clemons of Bristol, Tenn.; four halfbrothers, Carl Viers of Hamstead, Md., Leonard Viers of Cockeysville, Md., Russell Viers of Glenarm, Md. And John Viers of Lewisburg; five halfsisters, Nora Smith of Roanoke, Va., Pauline Weldon of Cockeysville, Md., Helen Cole of Charleston, Vandora Baldwin of St. Albans, Josephine Jarrett of South Charleston, Ohio; 26 grandchildren, several great grand-children and some greatgreat grandchildren.

Services will be held today at 2 p.m. in the Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home in Lewisburg with Elder Jerry Clifton, Elder Arvil Neeley and the Rev. Leroy Crane officiating. Burial will be in the McMillion Church Cemetery.

Bessie married Eddie Edward CRANE, son of Joseph Zachariah Taylor CRANE and Elizabeth F. LEVISAY, on 26 May 1915 in Greenbrier Co., WV.⁷⁷⁹ (Eddie Edward CRANE was born on 8 Oct 1894 in Renick, Greenbrier Co., WV,^32,946 died on 30 Jul 1964 in Friars Hill, Greenbrier Co., WV ⁷⁴ and was buried on 3 Aug 1964 in McMillion Methodist Church Cemetery, Friars Hill, Greenbrier Co., WV ⁹⁵.)