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Cranes Celebrate 50th Anniversary
Mrs. and Mrs. Joe Crane celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on Janury 10 with an open house hosted by their son and daughter-in-law, Carroll and Frances Crane.
Attending the punch bowl and serving the cake were Ruth Hanna, Ruby Crane and Stella Hanna. Joyce Moody was in charge of the guest book.
Mr. and Mrs. Crane were married at New Castle, Virginia in 1938 by Rev. O.L. Cochenour. Mrs. Crane is the former Nancy Edith Dilley, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Watson Dilley of Cornstalk. Crane is the son of the late C.O. Crane and Ada Hume Crane of Renick.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Crane are retired Greenbrier County School employees. She was an elementary teacher and he was a bus driver.
The West Virginia Daily News
Joseph H. Crane, 84, of Cornstalk, passed away Friday, September 25, at Greenbrier Valley Medical Center in Fairlea of a long illness.
Mr. Crane was born in August 21, 1914, at Esty, WV, son of the late Charles Oakley and Ada Hume Crane.
He was a member of the Hope Baptist Church and was a retired school bus driver in Greenbrier County, and was a member of the Greenbrier Retired School Employees.
He was preceded death by his wife, Edith D. Crane; a sister, Hester Crane; and a brother, Marshall.
Survivors include a son Robert Carroll Crane and his wife, Frances, of Lewisburg; a sister, Ruth Hanna and her husband Leo, of Lewisburg; two brothers; Rev. William L. Crane of Roanoke, and Leroy Crane and his wife, Ruby, of Lewisburg; and two nieces.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. today at the Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home Chapel in Lewisburg, with the Rev. Verlin Butcher and Rev. James Yates officiated. Burial will be in the Andrew Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery in WIlliamsburg.
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