Obituary contributed by Louise Havens
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.
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.
Obituary contributed by Louise Havens
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.
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.
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