FREDA CRAFT

ANNA, Ill. -- Freda Irene Craft, 89, of Anna, died Thursday, Dec. 2, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born Sept. 6, 1910, in Jonesboro, daughter of Oliver and Elsie Keller Dillow. She married Cecil Craft Nov. 28, 1926, in Jonesboro. He died in 1971.

She worked as a seamstress at Jo-An Dry Cleaners and was a member of Gospel Assembly Church in Anna.

Survivors include two sons, Alfred "Bub" Craft of Dongola and Ernest Craft of Altenburg, Mo.; four daughters, Jean Ellen Eads and Martha Barlow, both of Anna, Ada Clendenin of Wolf Lake and Sharon Crider of Jonesboro; two brothers, Albert Dillow of Jonesboro and Carl Dillow of Florida; 23 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Hileman & Parr Funeral Services.

Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Revs. Dennis Fitzsimmons and Walter Stevenson officiating. Burial will be in Anna Cemetery.