Gentry county Missouri, Obituaries:  Ermel Liggett

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Submitted by: <dhr1953@hotmail.com>  Don Raymond

The Stanberry Headlight, Gentry County, Missouri, Thursday, September 5, 1957:
Services  For  Mrs.  Ermel  Liggett:  Final  services  were  held  Saturday
afternoon at the Stanberry Christian church for Mrs. Ermel Liggett, 70, who
was taken by death Thursday at the home of a son, Forrest Liggett, south of
Stanberry. She  had  been  ill  for  several  months,  but  her  death  was
unexpected.

Services were conducted by the pastor, the Rev. O. Glenn Crosby, and burial
was in High Ridge cemetery under the direction of the Phillips Mortuary.

Other survivors include another son, Robert S. Ligget,  Anchorage,  Alaska;
three brothers, Fred Crawford, Waterloo, Ia.; Lloyd  Crawford,  California,
and her twin, Emmett Crawford, Denver, Colo.; and three sisters, Mrs.  Lela
C. Davis,  Lincoln,  Neb.,  Mrs.  Edna  Goff  Rosamond,  Calif.,  and  Mrs.
Josephine McGrew, Denver, Colo.

Mrs. Ligget, the daughter of the late Mr. and  Mrs.  William  Crawford  was
born July 29, 1887, in Graham, Mo. She and A. R. Liggett  were  married  in
Graham on Nov. 5, 1908. Mr. Liggett, who farmed most of his  life  in  this
area, but who also saw service in th real estate  and  banking  businesses,
preceded her in death in 1954.