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CRAFT, Mike Calvin


Source: The News-Palladium, Benton Harbor, Michigan - 18 January 1943 p 10

Mike Calvin Craft, 42, of 730 Thresher, died suddenly at Mercy hospital at 10 p.m. Sunday. A resident of Benton Harbor for the past 25 years, he had been employed at the Superior Steel and Malleable Castings Co. for the past 21 years. He was born in Attica, Ind., on September 8, 1900. He leaves his widow, the former Alberta McKelvey, of St. Joseph, whom he married in 1925; three sons and three daughters, Urban, 16, Richard 14, William 13, Nancy 12, Julia 5, and Donna 2; his mother, Mrs. Nettie Craft, of Muskegon; five brothers, Frank and Ransom, Benton Harbor, and Arthur, Charles and Joseph, Muskegon; and a sister, Mrs. Fred Downes, Benton Harbor. Funeral services will

Thanks so much to Ginny A. for this one


Source: Saint Joseph Michigan Herald-Press Monn 18 Jan 1943 p 6

Mike Calvin Craft, 42 of 730 Thresher avenue, Benton Harbor died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage at Mercy Hospital at 10 p.m. Sunday.   A resident of Benton harbor for the past 25 years, he has been employed at the Superior Steel & Malleable Castings Co for the past 21.  He was born in Attica, Ind on Sept 8, 1900. He leaves his widow, the former Alberta McKelvey of St. Joseph whom he married in 1925; three sons and three daughters: Urban 16; Richard 14; William 13; Nancy 12; Julia 5 and Donna 2; his mother, Mrs. Nettie Craft of Muskegon; five brothers, Frank and Ransom, Benton Harbor and Arthur, Charles and Joseph, Muskegon; and a sister, Mrs. Fred Downes, Benton Harbor. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at Dean’s Mortuary. Burial will be in Crystal Springs Cemetery. Friends may call at Dean’s. - kbz -- it is basically the same thing but from two papers so thought I'd include 'em both anyway  


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