Alvie Criger was born on November 11, 1912, in Fairview Township, Butler, Kansas, his father, Charles Evert Criger, was 22 and his mother, Ethel Leona White, was 22. Alvie graduated at Arkansas City high school with the class of 1933. While working on a farm near the home of the Hacklers He met and later married Agnes Louise Hackler on May 7, 1936. After their marriage he continued to work on the rural farms as he could. Summer time work was in the hay and wheat fields winter would be milking and feeding the live stock. This was during the depression and work was hard to get how ever he. stayed busy during this time.. They settled in Blackwell , Oklahoma in 1942 as he had gained employment with the zinc smelter. They were the parents of 2 sons and 4 daughters In writing about Alvie I have to include his work ethic Which most certainly contributed to his early death. Alvie would start his day at 3:00 a.m., at times walking to his job at the Blackwell Zinc Smelter after his shift there he would go home take and hour nap then proceed to the Acme Foundry for a shift there. In the late spring and summer months, after these two shifts he would then start his third routine which would be mowing and baling hay until about nine at night or until the dew fell. He died on 1 August 1967, in Blackwell, Kay, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Blackwell Cemetery, Blackwell, Kay, Oklahoma, United States.
Alvie Criger was born on November 11, 1912, in Fairview Township, Butler, Kansas, his father, Charles Evert Criger, was 22 and his mother, Ethel Leona White, was 22. Alvie graduated at Arkansas City high school with the class of 1933. While working on a farm near the home of the Hacklers He met and later married Agnes Louise Hackler on May 7, 1936. After their marriage he continued to work on the rural farms as he could. Summer time work was in the hay and wheat fields winter would be milking and feeding the live stock. This was during the depression and work was hard to get how ever he. stayed busy during this time.. They settled in Blackwell , Oklahoma in 1942 as he had gained employment with the zinc smelter. They were the parents of 2 sons and 4 daughters In writing about Alvie I have to include his work ethic Which most certainly contributed to his early death. Alvie would start his day at 3:00 a.m., at times walking to his job at the Blackwell Zinc Smelter after his shift there he would go home take and hour nap then proceed to the Acme Foundry for a shift there. In the late spring and summer months, after these two shifts he would then start his third routine which would be mowing and baling hay until about nine at night or until the dew fell. He died on 1 August 1967, in Blackwell, Kay, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Blackwell Cemetery, Blackwell, Kay, Oklahoma, United States.
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