March 4, 1996

MINA GURLEY CRAWFORD

MARION, Ill. -- Mina Gurley Crawford, 85, of Marion, formerly of Buncombe, Ill., died Friday, March 1, 1996, at her home. She was born June 30, 1910, in Union County, Ill., to Elijah and Etta Hood Gurley. In November 1929 she married Donald Crawford, who died May 26, 1987...

MARION, Ill. -- Mina Gurley Crawford, 85, of Marion, formerly of Buncombe, Ill., died Friday, March 1, 1996, at her home.

She was born June 30, 1910, in Union County, Ill., to Elijah and Etta Hood Gurley. In November 1929 she married Donald Crawford, who died May 26, 1987.

She was a member of Cedar Grove Church at Buncombe and was a retired psychiatric aid at the former Anna State Hospital.

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Survivors are one daughter, Barbara Jean Graves of Marion; one sister, Mildred Verble Adams of Buncombe; one granddaughter; and two great-grandsons.

She was preceded in death by a son, an infant daughter and two sisters.

Visitation is today after 6 p.m. at Crain Funeral Home in Anna.

Service will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home with the Rev. Kenneth McNeely officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery at Buncombe.

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