Verna M. McGraw

Colony Services for Verna M. McGraw, 83, Iola, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel, Colony. Burial will be in Colony Cemetery.

Mrs. McGraw died Thursday, April 25, 2002, at Windsor Place, Iola.

She was born Jan. 14, 1919, in Wagoner, Okla., the daughter of S.A. and Iva (Kennedy) Pruitt. She moved with her family to Kansas and she grew up in the Centerville and Selma areas.

After her marriage, she lived in the Bush City area until moving to a home near Colony in 1956. She moved to Iola in 1992.

Mrs. McGraw was a homemaker and a member of First Christian Church.

She married Clyde McGraw on Dec. 18, 1937. He died Aug. 18, 1983.

Survivors include two sons, Duane McGraw, Iola, and Eldon McGraw, Colony; a daughter, Wilma Ballard, Lawrence; three sisters, Jessie Patrick, Iola, Ruth Thomasson, Gardner, and Jean Ross, Osawatomie; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.