Morehouse County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....CRAVEN, MELVIN EUGENE  December 23, 2008
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Bastrop Daily Enterprise - December 26, 2008
MELVIN EUGENE CRAVEN

Bastrop, La. -

Funeral services for Mr. Melvin Eugene Craven, 82, of Bastrop will be held 
2:00 p.m. Friday, December 26, 2008 at the Chapel of Cox Funeral Home of 
Bastrop with the Rev. Cal Adams officiating. Interment will follow at the 
Hamburg Cemetery in Hamburg, Ark. under the direction of Cox Funeral Home.


Visitation with the family will be Friday, December 26th, beginning at 1:00 
p.m. at the funeral home.


Melvin Eugene Craven was born March 3, 1929 in Huttig, Arkansas to the late 
Miles Harrison Craven and Sarah Farrar Craven. He died December 23, 2008 at 
the Oak Woods Nursing Home in Mer Rouge, Louisiana. A retired construction 
foreman, Mr. Craven was a member of the Cherry Ridge Baptist Church, an Army 
veteran of World War II, and a semi-professional baseball player. He is 
preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Lonnie Craven and Miles 
Harrison Craven, Jr.; and three sisters, Mary Craven Pennington, Helen Craven 
Jackson, and Trudie Craven Bedenbender.


Mr. Craven is survived by his wife Inez Wyman Craven of Bastrop; two sons, 
Randall Craven and wife Sandra Craven of Columbus, Georgia and Terry Craven of 
Mer Rouge, Louisiana; two grandchildren, Christopher Knight of Homer, 
Louisiana and Jo Anna Craven of Denton, Texas; a sister, Frankie Craven Beard 
of Houston, Texas; and a host of nieces and nephews.


Serving as pallbearers are Truman Hough, Jerry Goodman, Charles Dumas, James 
Cummins, Floyd Tubbs, and Charles Rider.


Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Cherry Ridge Baptist Church Adult 
Men's Sunday School Class and Rev. Ron Lowe.


For those who wish memorials may be made to the Cherry Ridge Baptist Memorial 
Fund in memory of Mr. Melvin E. Craven. 

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