MADISON — April Lee Craig, age 17, died on Tuesday, April 28, 1992 at St. Mary's Hospital from complications due to her recent battle with cancer.
She was born on March 22, 1975 In Madison. April was currently a student at Malcolm Shabazz High School, and had also attended Edgewood and Madison East High Schools. For the last three seasons April has been a member of the Capitol Aires Drum and Bugle Corps. She was very proud of the fact that for the first time in Capitol Aires history they were finalists at the Drum Corps Midwest Championships In Dekalb, Illinois. In 1991, they were named the Most improved Drum Corps in the Midwest and the world by Drum Corps International A60. Her travels with the Corps to places like Canada, New York, and Texas gave her great joy. She wrote "music for her was a way of life." That "people have to
have dreams; It's what keeps them alive." Hers was to sing the part of Christine in the Phantom of the Opera. She recently nicknamed herself Charlotte, like the spider in Charlotte's Web. She wrote "I love to sing, live on farms and can sleep
anywhere, just like Charlotte."
Survivors include her father, Gerald (Jane) Craig of Appleton; her mother, Penny
Lynn Nelson, and her future step father Phillp H. Marshall of Madison, Paternal grandmother Elizabeth Craig of Madison, Maternal grandfather Earl (Jane) Nelson of Sparta; Great grandparents Jack and Ethel Edmiston of Sparta, a step-sister; two nephews;
and aunts, uncles, and cousins. She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Gerald D. Craig.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, May 1, 1992 at 11:30 am. at the RYAN FUNERAL HOME, 2418 North Sherman Avenue, with Father Tony Karls officiating. Private family interment will be held In the Beetown Cemetery
Wisconsin State Journalm, Thursday, April 30, 1992
Contributor: Bruce Gordon Waddell (
She was born on March 22, 1975 In Madison. April was currently a student at Malcolm Shabazz High School, and had also attended Edgewood and Madison East High Schools. For the last three seasons April has been a member of the Capitol Aires Drum and Bugle Corps. She was very proud of the fact that for the first time in Capitol Aires history they were finalists at the Drum Corps Midwest Championships In Dekalb, Illinois. In 1991, they were named the Most improved Drum Corps in the Midwest and the world by Drum Corps International A60. Her travels with the Corps to places like Canada, New York, and Texas gave her great joy. She wrote "music for her was a way of life." That "people have to
have dreams; It's what keeps them alive." Hers was to sing the part of Christine in the Phantom of the Opera. She recently nicknamed herself Charlotte, like the spider in Charlotte's Web. She wrote "I love to sing, live on farms and can sleep
anywhere, just like Charlotte."
Survivors include her father, Gerald (Jane) Craig of Appleton; her mother, Penny
Lynn Nelson, and her future step father Phillp H. Marshall of Madison, Paternal grandmother Elizabeth Craig of Madison, Maternal grandfather Earl (Jane) Nelson of Sparta; Great grandparents Jack and Ethel Edmiston of Sparta, a step-sister; two nephews;
and aunts, uncles, and cousins. She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Gerald D. Craig.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, May 1, 1992 at 11:30 am. at the RYAN FUNERAL HOME, 2418 North Sherman Avenue, with Father Tony Karls officiating. Private family interment will be held In the Beetown Cemetery
Wisconsin State Journalm, Thursday, April 30, 1992
Contributor: Bruce Gordon Waddell (
MADISON — April Lee Craig, age 17, died on Tuesday, April 28, 1992 at St. Mary's Hospital from complications due to her recent battle with cancer.
She was born on March 22, 1975 In Madison. April was currently a student at Malcolm Shabazz High School, and had also attended Edgewood and Madison East High Schools. For the last three seasons April has been a member of the Capitol Aires Drum and Bugle Corps. She was very proud of the fact that for the first time in Capitol Aires history they were finalists at the Drum Corps Midwest Championships In Dekalb, Illinois. In 1991, they were named the Most improved Drum Corps in the Midwest and the world by Drum Corps International A60. Her travels with the Corps to places like Canada, New York, and Texas gave her great joy. She wrote "music for her was a way of life." That "people have to
have dreams; It's what keeps them alive." Hers was to sing the part of Christine in the Phantom of the Opera. She recently nicknamed herself Charlotte, like the spider in Charlotte's Web. She wrote "I love to sing, live on farms and can sleep
anywhere, just like Charlotte."
Survivors include her father, Gerald (Jane) Craig of Appleton; her mother, Penny
Lynn Nelson, and her future step father Phillp H. Marshall of Madison, Paternal grandmother Elizabeth Craig of Madison, Maternal grandfather Earl (Jane) Nelson of Sparta; Great grandparents Jack and Ethel Edmiston of Sparta, a step-sister; two nephews;
and aunts, uncles, and cousins. She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Gerald D. Craig.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, May 1, 1992 at 11:30 am. at the RYAN FUNERAL HOME, 2418 North Sherman Avenue, with Father Tony Karls officiating. Private family interment will be held In the Beetown Cemetery
Wisconsin State Journalm, Thursday, April 30, 1992
Contributor: Bruce Gordon Waddell (
She was born on March 22, 1975 In Madison. April was currently a student at Malcolm Shabazz High School, and had also attended Edgewood and Madison East High Schools. For the last three seasons April has been a member of the Capitol Aires Drum and Bugle Corps. She was very proud of the fact that for the first time in Capitol Aires history they were finalists at the Drum Corps Midwest Championships In Dekalb, Illinois. In 1991, they were named the Most improved Drum Corps in the Midwest and the world by Drum Corps International A60. Her travels with the Corps to places like Canada, New York, and Texas gave her great joy. She wrote "music for her was a way of life." That "people have to
have dreams; It's what keeps them alive." Hers was to sing the part of Christine in the Phantom of the Opera. She recently nicknamed herself Charlotte, like the spider in Charlotte's Web. She wrote "I love to sing, live on farms and can sleep
anywhere, just like Charlotte."
Survivors include her father, Gerald (Jane) Craig of Appleton; her mother, Penny
Lynn Nelson, and her future step father Phillp H. Marshall of Madison, Paternal grandmother Elizabeth Craig of Madison, Maternal grandfather Earl (Jane) Nelson of Sparta; Great grandparents Jack and Ethel Edmiston of Sparta, a step-sister; two nephews;
and aunts, uncles, and cousins. She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Gerald D. Craig.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, May 1, 1992 at 11:30 am. at the RYAN FUNERAL HOME, 2418 North Sherman Avenue, with Father Tony Karls officiating. Private family interment will be held In the Beetown Cemetery
Wisconsin State Journalm, Thursday, April 30, 1992
Contributor: Bruce Gordon Waddell (
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