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Note: The Severyite, Severy, Kansas BIRTHS--FRIEND Wednesday Feb. 3, 1909, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Friend. Ethel M. (Friend) Criger HOWARD - Criger, Ethel M. (Friend), 94, homemaker, died Tuesday, June 24, 2003. Service 2 p.m. Saturday, Howard United Methodist Church. Survivors: daughters, Evelyn Boyer, Moline, Norma Allen, Howard; brother, Vern Friend, sister, Della Cox, both of Howard; 8 grandchildren, 28 great grandchildren. Zimmerman Funeral Home. Published in the Wichita Eagle on 6/26/2003. Winfield Daily County, Winfield, Kansas, Thursday June 26th, 2003 HOWARD - Ethel May Criger, 94, longtime resident of Howard, died June 24, 2003, at Howard Twilight Manor. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Howard United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Grace Lawn Cemetery. Memorials have been established with the church, Twilight Manor and Howard Senior Center. Contributions may be made through Zimmerman Funeral Home. Criger was born Feb. 4, 1909, on a farm near Severy, to Gertrude (Richardson) and Wiley Michael Friend. She attended Lower Paw Paw rural school and Howard High School. On July 24, 1934, she married Clad Quinton Criger in Eureka. A homemaker, she and her husband owned and operated a ranch west of Howard until moving to town in the early 1970s. Her husband died May 3, 1974. The past four years, she had lived with her daughter and son-in-law, Norma and Jerry Allen, on their farm east of Howard. A longtime member of the Howard United Methodist Church, she was active in United Methodist Women and church circles. She was a former member of the Union Center Homemakers and the Triple F Club. A son, Allen Lee Criger, died in 1974. Survivors include two daughters, Norma Allen, Howard, and Evelyn Boyer, Moline; a brother, Vern Friend, and a sister, Della Cox, both of Howard; eight grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren and several stepgrandchildren. FUNERAL CARD In Loving Memory of Ethel May Criger Ethel May Criger passed away on Tuesday, June 24, 2003 at the Howard Twilight Manor in Howard, Kansas. She was 94 years of age and a long time resident of Howard. Ethel was born on February 4, 1909 on a farm near Severy in Greenwood County, Kansas to Wiley Michael and Gertrude (Richardson) Friend. She attended Lower Paw Paw rural school and Howard High School. On July 24, 1934, she married Clad Quinton Criger at Eureka, Kansas. They owned and operated a ranch west of Howard until moving to town in the early 1970's. Ethel was a devoted wife and mother, and dedicated her life to caring for her family. During the past four years she has lived with her daughter and son-in-law, Norma and Jerry Allen, east of Howard where she enjoyed watching the birds, deer and other wildlife. She was preceded in death by her husband on May 3, 1974. Ethel was a former member of the Union Center Homemakers and the Triple F. Club. She was a long time member of the Howard United Methodist Church and was active in the United Methodist Women and church circles. She is survived by her daughters, Evelyn Boyer and her husband Jerry of Moline and Norma Allen and her husband Jerry of Howard; a brother, Vern Friend of Howard; a sister, Della Cox of Howard; eight grandchildren, twenty-eight great grandchildren, five great-great grandchildren and several step-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, a son Allen Lee Criger in 1974, her parents, a brother Forest Friend, and a grandchild, Lacy Criger who died in 1859. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 28, 2003 at the Howard United Methodist Church with Rev. Julie Shields and Rev. Gary Parsons officiating. Susie Perkins was the organist with LeRoy Jordan singing "How Great Thou Art" and Beyond The Sunset". The casket bearers were Steve Bias, Steve Boyer, Patrick Cope, Danny Harrison, Darrell Montgomery, Patrick Taylor and Kyle Wham. Interment was held at the Grace Lawn Cemetery in Howard, Memorials have been established with the Howard United Methodist Church, the Howard Senior Center and Howard Twilight Manor. Contributions may be left with the funeral home. The funeral arrangements were made with the Zimmerman Funeral Home of Howard. Note: Corrections to the information above. 1. She was not born in Greenwood Co., she was born just across the line in Elk County. 2. Her sister, Violet Hebb, was not listed among those preceding her in death. (must have been an oversight)
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