Obit of Craven, Beverly Jean - Payne County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 12 Dec 2010 Return to Payne County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/payne/payne.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Tryon Cemetery--Tryon OK Cushing Daily Citizen April 02, 2007 Beverly Jean Craven NO PICTURE Beverly Jean Craven 74 passed away Apr. 1, 2007 in Drumright, Oklahoma. Services will be held Thursday Apr. 5, 2007 at 3 p.m. at the Tryon First Baptist Church with Pastor Bob Fowler and Mr. Marvin Skinner officiating. Interment will be at the Tryon Cemetery. Arrangements are entrusted to Strode Funeral Home of Stillwater, Oklahoma. Beverly was born Dec. 19, 1932 in Springfield Nev. to Furl Alvin "Bud" Hicks and Dona Mae (Herrington) Hicks. The family moved to Oklahoma in 1935. Beverly graduated high school in 1950 and then entered the school of nursing at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City, There she met and later married Samuel Durrel Craven. The family moved to Tryon in 1962. To their union were born four children. She went to work Cushing Regional Hospital, a job she held for forty years. She loved her trips to the family cabin at Lake Eufaula and she loved her garden in the spring. Beverly was a member of the Tryon Baptist Church. Her parents and one son, Terry Craven preceded Beverly in death. Survivors include her husband Samuel Durrel Craven of the home, son Alvin Craven and his wife Carolyn of Carney, Okla., daughters; Patty Welch ad her husband Tommy of Carney, Okla. and Cheryl Murphy and her husband Mark of Agra, Okla., seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Payne County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/payne/payne.html