1954 graduate of Burney High School, Burney, Decatur County, Indiana
Died in Forrest City, AR, death certificate may have been issued in Memphis, TN
Beverly Ann Creaser was born as a "blue" baby because of her difficult birth. She was also born with a heart defect that was complicated by rheumatic fever as a young child.
Her heart problems prevented her from having a completely normal childhood and adulthood. She was born just too soon to take advantage of all the advancements that would be made in heart surgery. In the 50s there was no open heart surgery available to her to repair the hole in her heart. In the 60s when all the break-thrus were being made in heart surgery, her damaged heart was too enlarged to have the necessary repair. She died of congestive heart failure in 1976.
She began teaching pre-schoolers at Burney Baptist church as an assistant when she was only 9 year old. At the time of her death, some 30 plus years later, she was teaching the children of her first students. She loved telling Bible stories to the pre-schoolers using flannelgraph stories which she usually paid for out of her own pocket.
She became interested in her family genealogy as a young adult and spent many Sunday afternoon, accompanied by her younger sister, Donna, tramping through Dearborn County, Indiana cemeteries filling page after page of cemetery records while trying in vain to locate her great grandmother Melissa Connell Creasser.
She briefly worked in Dayton, Ohio for NCR before coming to Reeves Pulley Company in the late 50s and spent over 20 years in the shipping department there.
She never married but many entrusted their children to her loving care.
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Greensburg Daily News
Thursday, July 29, 1976
page 2, column 5
OBITUARY
BEVERLY CREASER
Funeral services for Beverly Ann Creaser, 40, Burney, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the Gilliland-Howe Funeral Home, with the Rev. Henry Hawkins, pastor of the Burney Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Milford Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. today.
Miss Creaser died at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday at Forest City, Ark., enroute to visit her sister in Texas.
She was born May 27, 1936 at Logansport, the daughter of Walter Marion and Bess Pruden Creaser. Miss Creaser had lived most of her life in Burney and had worked at the Reliance Electric Co. in the shipping office of the Reeves Pulley branch at Columbus for 22 years.
Surviving are her parents of Burney; one sister, Mrs. Richard (Donna) Harwood, Seabrook, Texas; and a nephew, John A. Harwood, and niece, Elizabeth Anne Harwood, both of Seabrook, Texas
(obit provided by dhintx #47160808)
Died in Forrest City, AR, death certificate may have been issued in Memphis, TN
Beverly Ann Creaser was born as a "blue" baby because of her difficult birth. She was also born with a heart defect that was complicated by rheumatic fever as a young child.
Her heart problems prevented her from having a completely normal childhood and adulthood. She was born just too soon to take advantage of all the advancements that would be made in heart surgery. In the 50s there was no open heart surgery available to her to repair the hole in her heart. In the 60s when all the break-thrus were being made in heart surgery, her damaged heart was too enlarged to have the necessary repair. She died of congestive heart failure in 1976.
She began teaching pre-schoolers at Burney Baptist church as an assistant when she was only 9 year old. At the time of her death, some 30 plus years later, she was teaching the children of her first students. She loved telling Bible stories to the pre-schoolers using flannelgraph stories which she usually paid for out of her own pocket.
She became interested in her family genealogy as a young adult and spent many Sunday afternoon, accompanied by her younger sister, Donna, tramping through Dearborn County, Indiana cemeteries filling page after page of cemetery records while trying in vain to locate her great grandmother Melissa Connell Creasser.
She briefly worked in Dayton, Ohio for NCR before coming to Reeves Pulley Company in the late 50s and spent over 20 years in the shipping department there.
She never married but many entrusted their children to her loving care.
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Greensburg Daily News
Thursday, July 29, 1976
page 2, column 5
OBITUARY
BEVERLY CREASER
Funeral services for Beverly Ann Creaser, 40, Burney, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the Gilliland-Howe Funeral Home, with the Rev. Henry Hawkins, pastor of the Burney Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Milford Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. today.
Miss Creaser died at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday at Forest City, Ark., enroute to visit her sister in Texas.
She was born May 27, 1936 at Logansport, the daughter of Walter Marion and Bess Pruden Creaser. Miss Creaser had lived most of her life in Burney and had worked at the Reliance Electric Co. in the shipping office of the Reeves Pulley branch at Columbus for 22 years.
Surviving are her parents of Burney; one sister, Mrs. Richard (Donna) Harwood, Seabrook, Texas; and a nephew, John A. Harwood, and niece, Elizabeth Anne Harwood, both of Seabrook, Texas
(obit provided by dhintx #47160808)
1954 graduate of Burney High School, Burney, Decatur County, Indiana
Died in Forrest City, AR, death certificate may have been issued in Memphis, TN
Beverly Ann Creaser was born as a "blue" baby because of her difficult birth. She was also born with a heart defect that was complicated by rheumatic fever as a young child.
Her heart problems prevented her from having a completely normal childhood and adulthood. She was born just too soon to take advantage of all the advancements that would be made in heart surgery. In the 50s there was no open heart surgery available to her to repair the hole in her heart. In the 60s when all the break-thrus were being made in heart surgery, her damaged heart was too enlarged to have the necessary repair. She died of congestive heart failure in 1976.
She began teaching pre-schoolers at Burney Baptist church as an assistant when she was only 9 year old. At the time of her death, some 30 plus years later, she was teaching the children of her first students. She loved telling Bible stories to the pre-schoolers using flannelgraph stories which she usually paid for out of her own pocket.
She became interested in her family genealogy as a young adult and spent many Sunday afternoon, accompanied by her younger sister, Donna, tramping through Dearborn County, Indiana cemeteries filling page after page of cemetery records while trying in vain to locate her great grandmother Melissa Connell Creasser.
She briefly worked in Dayton, Ohio for NCR before coming to Reeves Pulley Company in the late 50s and spent over 20 years in the shipping department there.
She never married but many entrusted their children to her loving care.
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Greensburg Daily News
Thursday, July 29, 1976
page 2, column 5
OBITUARY
BEVERLY CREASER
Funeral services for Beverly Ann Creaser, 40, Burney, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the Gilliland-Howe Funeral Home, with the Rev. Henry Hawkins, pastor of the Burney Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Milford Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. today.
Miss Creaser died at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday at Forest City, Ark., enroute to visit her sister in Texas.
She was born May 27, 1936 at Logansport, the daughter of Walter Marion and Bess Pruden Creaser. Miss Creaser had lived most of her life in Burney and had worked at the Reliance Electric Co. in the shipping office of the Reeves Pulley branch at Columbus for 22 years.
Surviving are her parents of Burney; one sister, Mrs. Richard (Donna) Harwood, Seabrook, Texas; and a nephew, John A. Harwood, and niece, Elizabeth Anne Harwood, both of Seabrook, Texas
(obit provided by dhintx #47160808)
Died in Forrest City, AR, death certificate may have been issued in Memphis, TN
Beverly Ann Creaser was born as a "blue" baby because of her difficult birth. She was also born with a heart defect that was complicated by rheumatic fever as a young child.
Her heart problems prevented her from having a completely normal childhood and adulthood. She was born just too soon to take advantage of all the advancements that would be made in heart surgery. In the 50s there was no open heart surgery available to her to repair the hole in her heart. In the 60s when all the break-thrus were being made in heart surgery, her damaged heart was too enlarged to have the necessary repair. She died of congestive heart failure in 1976.
She began teaching pre-schoolers at Burney Baptist church as an assistant when she was only 9 year old. At the time of her death, some 30 plus years later, she was teaching the children of her first students. She loved telling Bible stories to the pre-schoolers using flannelgraph stories which she usually paid for out of her own pocket.
She became interested in her family genealogy as a young adult and spent many Sunday afternoon, accompanied by her younger sister, Donna, tramping through Dearborn County, Indiana cemeteries filling page after page of cemetery records while trying in vain to locate her great grandmother Melissa Connell Creasser.
She briefly worked in Dayton, Ohio for NCR before coming to Reeves Pulley Company in the late 50s and spent over 20 years in the shipping department there.
She never married but many entrusted their children to her loving care.
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Greensburg Daily News
Thursday, July 29, 1976
page 2, column 5
OBITUARY
BEVERLY CREASER
Funeral services for Beverly Ann Creaser, 40, Burney, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the Gilliland-Howe Funeral Home, with the Rev. Henry Hawkins, pastor of the Burney Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Milford Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. today.
Miss Creaser died at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday at Forest City, Ark., enroute to visit her sister in Texas.
She was born May 27, 1936 at Logansport, the daughter of Walter Marion and Bess Pruden Creaser. Miss Creaser had lived most of her life in Burney and had worked at the Reliance Electric Co. in the shipping office of the Reeves Pulley branch at Columbus for 22 years.
Surviving are her parents of Burney; one sister, Mrs. Richard (Donna) Harwood, Seabrook, Texas; and a nephew, John A. Harwood, and niece, Elizabeth Anne Harwood, both of Seabrook, Texas
(obit provided by dhintx #47160808)
