Robert Milton Craven, Sr., 85, died Wednesday afternoon (March 29,2017) at Mayo Clinic Health System at Waycross following an extended illness. .
He was a native of Brantley County but had made his home in Ware County since 1948 and was a former resident of Santa Rosa Island, FL in the early years of his marriage. He is the son of the late Joseph Franklin Craven and Elizabeth Pearl Hickox Craven. He was also preceded in death by three brothers, James Adrian (Jim) Craven, Joseph E. (Corky) Craven, and David E. (Elroy) Craven, and four sisters, Alice Hodges, Ruth Gunter, Grace Roberson, and Margaret Ann Lundsford.
He was educated in the Brantley County School System through the 1oth grade but graduated from Wacona High School in 1949. Mr. Craven served with the United States Army during the Korean War stationed in Germany with the 18th Ordinance MM Company as a automotive mechanic, earning the rank of Corporal. He was a devoted son to his mother and father helping farm the fields and man area fire towers watching for possible forest fires. He had formerly worked as a Timber Cruiser for Gillman Paper Products.
He had been the bass guitarist for many gospel groups including the One Heart Quartet. His other hobbies included fishing, electronics, his children, grandchildren, multiple nieces and nephews who fondly called him Pa-Pa and Daddy Milt. “To the world he was a dad, but to his family he was the world.”
He retired in 1995 as an electronic technician after many years of service which included employment with Ed Coleman Buick Olds in Waycross and Waters Ford in Blackshear
Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Lawana Woodard Craven of Waycross; two daughters, Sonja Craven of Waycross, and Rhonda Craven, her son and grandson Blake and Ariston Harris of Waycross; a son, Rob Craven (wife Dana) of Waycross and his daughters, Brittany Craven of Waycross and Kaiti Craven of Kennesaw and their mother, Marcia Carter Craven; two sisters, Maysie Lee of Hoboken and Mary Francis (Frankie) Albury (husband Bob) of Waycross, numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be sent to the Alzheimer’s Association, Post Office Box 96011, Washington DC 20090-6011 or at www.alz.org.
The family would like to express their thanks for the excellent care provided by the staff in the Critical Care Unit (CCU) of Mayo Clinic Health System at Waycross.
A funeral service will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday (April 1, 2017) at Music Funeral Home Chapel. Entombment will be in the Greenlawn Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from 12:30 until 1:30 Saturday at the funeral home.
Sympathy can be expressed by signing the online registry at www.musicfuneralhome.com.
Music Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
He was a native of Brantley County but had made his home in Ware County since 1948 and was a former resident of Santa Rosa Island, FL in the early years of his marriage. He is the son of the late Joseph Franklin Craven and Elizabeth Pearl Hickox Craven. He was also preceded in death by three brothers, James Adrian (Jim) Craven, Joseph E. (Corky) Craven, and David E. (Elroy) Craven, and four sisters, Alice Hodges, Ruth Gunter, Grace Roberson, and Margaret Ann Lundsford.
He was educated in the Brantley County School System through the 1oth grade but graduated from Wacona High School in 1949. Mr. Craven served with the United States Army during the Korean War stationed in Germany with the 18th Ordinance MM Company as a automotive mechanic, earning the rank of Corporal. He was a devoted son to his mother and father helping farm the fields and man area fire towers watching for possible forest fires. He had formerly worked as a Timber Cruiser for Gillman Paper Products.
He had been the bass guitarist for many gospel groups including the One Heart Quartet. His other hobbies included fishing, electronics, his children, grandchildren, multiple nieces and nephews who fondly called him Pa-Pa and Daddy Milt. “To the world he was a dad, but to his family he was the world.”
He retired in 1995 as an electronic technician after many years of service which included employment with Ed Coleman Buick Olds in Waycross and Waters Ford in Blackshear
Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Lawana Woodard Craven of Waycross; two daughters, Sonja Craven of Waycross, and Rhonda Craven, her son and grandson Blake and Ariston Harris of Waycross; a son, Rob Craven (wife Dana) of Waycross and his daughters, Brittany Craven of Waycross and Kaiti Craven of Kennesaw and their mother, Marcia Carter Craven; two sisters, Maysie Lee of Hoboken and Mary Francis (Frankie) Albury (husband Bob) of Waycross, numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be sent to the Alzheimer’s Association, Post Office Box 96011, Washington DC 20090-6011 or at www.alz.org.
The family would like to express their thanks for the excellent care provided by the staff in the Critical Care Unit (CCU) of Mayo Clinic Health System at Waycross.
A funeral service will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday (April 1, 2017) at Music Funeral Home Chapel. Entombment will be in the Greenlawn Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from 12:30 until 1:30 Saturday at the funeral home.
Sympathy can be expressed by signing the online registry at www.musicfuneralhome.com.
Music Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Robert Milton Craven, Sr., 85, died Wednesday afternoon (March 29,2017) at Mayo Clinic Health System at Waycross following an extended illness. .
He was a native of Brantley County but had made his home in Ware County since 1948 and was a former resident of Santa Rosa Island, FL in the early years of his marriage. He is the son of the late Joseph Franklin Craven and Elizabeth Pearl Hickox Craven. He was also preceded in death by three brothers, James Adrian (Jim) Craven, Joseph E. (Corky) Craven, and David E. (Elroy) Craven, and four sisters, Alice Hodges, Ruth Gunter, Grace Roberson, and Margaret Ann Lundsford.
He was educated in the Brantley County School System through the 1oth grade but graduated from Wacona High School in 1949. Mr. Craven served with the United States Army during the Korean War stationed in Germany with the 18th Ordinance MM Company as a automotive mechanic, earning the rank of Corporal. He was a devoted son to his mother and father helping farm the fields and man area fire towers watching for possible forest fires. He had formerly worked as a Timber Cruiser for Gillman Paper Products.
He had been the bass guitarist for many gospel groups including the One Heart Quartet. His other hobbies included fishing, electronics, his children, grandchildren, multiple nieces and nephews who fondly called him Pa-Pa and Daddy Milt. “To the world he was a dad, but to his family he was the world.”
He retired in 1995 as an electronic technician after many years of service which included employment with Ed Coleman Buick Olds in Waycross and Waters Ford in Blackshear
Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Lawana Woodard Craven of Waycross; two daughters, Sonja Craven of Waycross, and Rhonda Craven, her son and grandson Blake and Ariston Harris of Waycross; a son, Rob Craven (wife Dana) of Waycross and his daughters, Brittany Craven of Waycross and Kaiti Craven of Kennesaw and their mother, Marcia Carter Craven; two sisters, Maysie Lee of Hoboken and Mary Francis (Frankie) Albury (husband Bob) of Waycross, numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be sent to the Alzheimer’s Association, Post Office Box 96011, Washington DC 20090-6011 or at www.alz.org.
The family would like to express their thanks for the excellent care provided by the staff in the Critical Care Unit (CCU) of Mayo Clinic Health System at Waycross.
A funeral service will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday (April 1, 2017) at Music Funeral Home Chapel. Entombment will be in the Greenlawn Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from 12:30 until 1:30 Saturday at the funeral home.
Sympathy can be expressed by signing the online registry at www.musicfuneralhome.com.
Music Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
He was a native of Brantley County but had made his home in Ware County since 1948 and was a former resident of Santa Rosa Island, FL in the early years of his marriage. He is the son of the late Joseph Franklin Craven and Elizabeth Pearl Hickox Craven. He was also preceded in death by three brothers, James Adrian (Jim) Craven, Joseph E. (Corky) Craven, and David E. (Elroy) Craven, and four sisters, Alice Hodges, Ruth Gunter, Grace Roberson, and Margaret Ann Lundsford.
He was educated in the Brantley County School System through the 1oth grade but graduated from Wacona High School in 1949. Mr. Craven served with the United States Army during the Korean War stationed in Germany with the 18th Ordinance MM Company as a automotive mechanic, earning the rank of Corporal. He was a devoted son to his mother and father helping farm the fields and man area fire towers watching for possible forest fires. He had formerly worked as a Timber Cruiser for Gillman Paper Products.
He had been the bass guitarist for many gospel groups including the One Heart Quartet. His other hobbies included fishing, electronics, his children, grandchildren, multiple nieces and nephews who fondly called him Pa-Pa and Daddy Milt. “To the world he was a dad, but to his family he was the world.”
He retired in 1995 as an electronic technician after many years of service which included employment with Ed Coleman Buick Olds in Waycross and Waters Ford in Blackshear
Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Lawana Woodard Craven of Waycross; two daughters, Sonja Craven of Waycross, and Rhonda Craven, her son and grandson Blake and Ariston Harris of Waycross; a son, Rob Craven (wife Dana) of Waycross and his daughters, Brittany Craven of Waycross and Kaiti Craven of Kennesaw and their mother, Marcia Carter Craven; two sisters, Maysie Lee of Hoboken and Mary Francis (Frankie) Albury (husband Bob) of Waycross, numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be sent to the Alzheimer’s Association, Post Office Box 96011, Washington DC 20090-6011 or at www.alz.org.
The family would like to express their thanks for the excellent care provided by the staff in the Critical Care Unit (CCU) of Mayo Clinic Health System at Waycross.
A funeral service will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday (April 1, 2017) at Music Funeral Home Chapel. Entombment will be in the Greenlawn Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from 12:30 until 1:30 Saturday at the funeral home.
Sympathy can be expressed by signing the online registry at www.musicfuneralhome.com.
Music Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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