Iris Eileen Craver

Services for Iris Eileen Craver, 89, Lawrence, will be this summer. The date will be announced later. Cremation is planned.

Mrs. Craver died Monday, March 15, 2004, at Brandon Woods Retirement Community.

She was born July 7, 1914, in Mount Vernon, Ill., the daughter of Elmer Loren and Maude Ellen (Sanford) Brock. She graduated from high school in Mount Vernon in 1932 and from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale in 1937. She moved to Lawrence in 1993.

Mrs. Craver was a teaching assistant in the Kirkwood, Mo., school district for 10 years. She was a member of First United Methodist Church, Missouri Teacher’s Assn., Disciples of Christ in Webster Groves, Mo., and the St. Louis Herb Society.

She married John Kenneth Craver on June 18, 1939, in Mount Vernon. They divorced in 1970.

Survivors include a son, John Craver, Perry; three daughters, Iris Wilkinson, Lawrence, Mary Brown, San Antonio, and Carole Connet, Fairfield, Iowa; a sister, Frieda Luick, San Marcos, Texas; eight grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to Jayhawk Audubon Society, sent in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.

Online condolences may be sent at www.rumsey-yost.com.