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Leota Belle <I>Selby</I> Crawford

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Leota Belle Selby Crawford

Birth
Adair County, Missouri, USA
Death
21 May 1962 (aged 95)
Greentop, Schuyler County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Gibbs, Adair County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
May 24,1962
LEOTA CRAWFORD
---Mrs. Leota Bell Crawford, ninety-five years, six months and fourteen days of age, died at a Greentop Nursing Home Monday, May 21, at 8 p.m. She had been bedridden for some time.
---Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 24, a the Wilson Funeral Home with Rev. Paul Anderson the clergyman in charge. Interment was in the Union Cemetery at Gibbs.
---The daughter of Albert and Diana Poston Selby, she was born November 7, 1866 in Adair County and attended Gibbs schools.
---She was married on August 23, 1883 to John Leston Crawford who preceded her in death.
---Surviving are six children, Ethel Burton of Bozeman, Montana, Flossie Spencer of Chicago, Illinois, Glen, Ernest, Donald and John Crawford, all of La Plata, as well as twenty-four grandchildren, forty-four great-grandchildren and fifteen great-great-grandchildren. Two daughters also preceded her in death.
---She lived all her life in Adair and Macon Counties.
---Mrs. Crawford was a member of the La Plata Methodist Church.
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
May 24,1962
LEOTA CRAWFORD
---Mrs. Leota Bell Crawford, ninety-five years, six months and fourteen days of age, died at a Greentop Nursing Home Monday, May 21, at 8 p.m. She had been bedridden for some time.
---Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 24, a the Wilson Funeral Home with Rev. Paul Anderson the clergyman in charge. Interment was in the Union Cemetery at Gibbs.
---The daughter of Albert and Diana Poston Selby, she was born November 7, 1866 in Adair County and attended Gibbs schools.
---She was married on August 23, 1883 to John Leston Crawford who preceded her in death.
---Surviving are six children, Ethel Burton of Bozeman, Montana, Flossie Spencer of Chicago, Illinois, Glen, Ernest, Donald and John Crawford, all of La Plata, as well as twenty-four grandchildren, forty-four great-grandchildren and fifteen great-great-grandchildren. Two daughters also preceded her in death.
---She lived all her life in Adair and Macon Counties.
---Mrs. Crawford was a member of the La Plata Methodist Church.


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