Charles Harold CRANE

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The Beckley Register-Herald, Online Edition, 15 December 2004

CRAWLEY -- Charles Harold Crane, 83, died after an extended illness on Monday, Dec. 13, 2004, at Beverly Health Care in Glasgow, W.Va. He was preceded in death by his loving wife, Elsie Murphy Crane; and his parents, Charles Kenna and Clara Janet Crane, all formerly of Crawley. He is survived by his two daughters, Janet Tharp and her husband, Bill, of Glasgow, and Patricia Wojciechowski and her husband, Don, of Jacksonville, Fla.; his two grandchildren, Melissa Buckley and her husband, Shane, of Glasgow and Patrick Jorgensen of Southampton, England; and his three great-granddaughters, Alexis, Laura and Rachel Buckley of Glasgow. Mr. Crane was a member of the Big Clear Creek Baptist Church in Rupert, and was retired from Westmoreland Coal Company in Quinwood after 33 years of service. He was a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army, serving in the European Theater of Operations during World War II and participated in the landing at Normandy on D-Day. Mr. Crane had also been a member of the Masonic Lodge in Rainelle. Services will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Cooke Funeral Home Chapel, Cedar Grove, with the Rev. John Massey officiating. Entombment will follow the services at Kanawha Valley Memorial Gardens at Glasgow. Friends may call two hours prior to the service on Thursday at the Cooke Funeral Home, 600 Old Fort St., Cedar Grove. Cooke Funeral Home, Cedar Grove, is in charge of the arrangements.

Charles married Elsie Lorraine MURPHY on 29 Nov 1945 in Rainelle, Greenbrier Co., WV.²⁰⁴⁷ (Elsie Lorraine MURPHY was born on 9 Jan 1924 in Pageton, Mcdowell Co., WV,²⁰⁴⁷ died on 26 Dec 2002 in Montgomery, Fayette Co., WV ⁶⁸ and was buried on 30 Dec 2002 in Kanawha Valley Memorial Gardens Mausoleum, Glasgow, Kanawha Co., WV ⁶⁸.)