Rosie Craft

Published 12:00 am Monday, July 26, 2010

FERRIDAY — Services for Rosie Mae Craft, 86, of Ferriday, who died Saturday, July 24, 2010, will be 2 p.m. Monday at Lake St. John Community Baptist Church with the Revs. Karl Wilson and Preston Holder officiating.

Burial will follow at Greenlawn Memorial Park in Natchez under the direction of Comer Funeral Home.

Mrs. Craft was born Jan. 9, 1924, in Natchez, the daughter of Ike and Bell D. Cowan. She was a homemaker and a charter member of Lake St. John Community Baptist Church.

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Mrs. Craft was a lifelong resident of Concordia Parish. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Vernon M. Craft; one daughter, Doris Grantham; one grandson, Clayton Craft; one brother, Ike Cowan Jr. and two sisters, Lillie Mae Wilford and Reba Lee Wilkinson.

Survivors include one son, Mickey Craft and wife, Edna, of Ferriday; one son-in-law, Frank Grantham of Ferriday; one sister, Pearl Wendt of Bethany, Okla.; one step-sister, Frances Poole of Ferriday; four grandchildren, Mike Grantham, Kenny Wayne Grantham, Michelle Edwards and Tisha Sontoyo, and seven great-grandchildren, Lissa Grantham, Jason Grantham, Dylan Sontoyo, Naomi Grantham, Quincy Grantham, Tori Edwards and Brye Edwards.

Pallbearers will be Mike Grantham, Kenny Wayne Grantham, Dylan Sontoyo, Todd Ainsworth, Steve Edwards and Quincy Grantham.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Lake St. John Community Baptist Church in Ferriday.

Online condolences may be sent to www.comerfh.com.