Linda Carolyn Craddock

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West Virginia Death Certificate
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1156242&Type=Death
Cause of Death: Bronchiopneumonia

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OBITUARY

Andrew Jackson "Jack" Craddock, 74, of Beckley, died Thursday, Sept. 17, 1998, at a Beckley hospital following an apparent heart attack.

Born March 27, 1924, at Winding Gulf, he was the son of the late Nathaniel Cleve and Daisy Ellen Flinchum Craddock. Mr. Craddock spent his childhood at Lywinn.

In the early 1940s he served in the Civilian Conservation Corps, entering the U.S. Navy in 1942. A machinist, gunner and navigator, he was in 14 engagements and 21 invasions, among them the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima. He also served in the East China Sea. He was a heavy equipment operator for Westmoreland Coal Company with 30 years of service.

He was a member of the UMWA Local 6105 at Midway, the Sophia VFW Post 4326 at Midway, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Post 3506 and the Beckley Moose Lodge, Post 1606. He was a member of the Hollywood Missionary Baptist Church and was an avid fisherman.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Geneva Wickline Craddock; a daughter, Linda Carroll Craddock; a sister, Toby Cummiford; and two brothers, Darrell and Jerry Wayne Craddock.

Survivors include his wife, Dorothy Hylton Ward Craddock; two daughters, Pamela Jack Craddock Smallwood of Beckley and Gina Garten and her husband, Larry, of Dandridge, Tenn.; a son, Jerry Wayne Craddock of Beckley; a stepdaughter, Deborah Ward Carter and her husband, James, of Deltona, Fla.; a stepson, Garland R. Ward Jr. and his wife, Jenine, of Beckley; a sister, Joy Arenson of Palmetto, Fla.; three brothers, Donald G. Craddock of Palmetto, Fla., Nathaniel "Buck" Craddock of Ruckersville, Va., and William H. Craddock of Charlottesville, Va.; eight grandchildren, Holly, Paul, Richard, Toby, Andrew, Crystal, Melissa and Joy Lynn; and four great-grandchildren, Terry, Derrick, Lela and Dillon.

Services will be 11 a.m. Sunday at Melton Mortuary Chapel, Beckley with the Rev. Robert Coburn officiating. Burial will follow in the Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery, Beckley. Friends may call 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Pallbearers will be Mike Bonds, Jim Moran, Willie Adams, Charles Helvey, David Zorns and Chester Smith. Military graveside rites will be conducted by the Sophia VFW. Arrangements by Melton Mortuary, Beckley.

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Andrew married Geneva Jewel (Giz) Wickline. Geneva (daughter of William Henry Wickline and Lockie Bell Quesenberry) was born 17 Jun 1931, Raleigh Co. WV; died 02 Apr 1991, Beckley, Raleigh Co. WV; was buried , Coal City Cemetery, Raleigh Co. WV. [Group Sheet]

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From Find A Grave

Geneva Jewel Wickline, daughter of William Henry Wickline and his third wife, Lockie Belle (Quesenberry) Coffey Wickline, was born on June 17, 1931 in Lego Raleigh County, WV. She married Andrew Jackson Craddock, son of Nathaniel Cleve Craddock and Daisy Ellen Flinchum on January 27, 1947, in Epperly, Raleigh County, WV. R.H. Kennedy performed the wedding ceremony. She died April 2, 1991, in Beckley, Raleigh County, WV, at age 59. Her nickname was "Giz."

Geneva was survived by her husband, Andrew Jackson "Jack" Craddock of Beckley, Raleigh County, WV, her son, Jerry Wayne Craddock of Beckley, Raleigh County, WV, two daughters, Gina (Craddock) Garten, wife of Larry Garten, of Dandridge, TN, and Pamela Jack (Craddock) Smallwood, wife of Charles Smallwood, of Beckley, WV, her sisters, Margaret Elizabeth (Wickline) Kelley Aldridge of Tupelo, MS, Jacquelyn D. (Wickline) Parlato, wife of Charles F. Parlato of MD, Patricia Joanna (Wickline) Spangler, wife of Jefferson Dale Spangler, Sr., of Beckley, Raleigh County, WV, Frances J. (Wickline) Rutter, wife of John A. Rutter, of Boise, Ada County, ID, her brothers, James Herbert Stevenson "Jimmy" Wickline of Forest Hill, Summers County, WV, Robert Douglas Wickline of Dayton, OH, her half-sister, Ameda Lulu (Wickline) Smith, widow of Charles Dee Smith, of Talcott, Summers County, WV, and her half-brother, Woodrow Wilson Wickline who resided in Okinawa, Japan and later in Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI.

She was predeceased by her infant daughter, Linda Carolyn Craddock (1947-1948), her father, William Henry Wickline, her mother, Lockie Belle (Quesenberry) Coffey Wickline Wood Smith and her sister, Peggy Kathleen "Pebbles" (Wickline) Kessler.

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Died:
West Virginia Death Certificate
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1553095&Type=Death
Cause of Death: perforated gastric ulcer

William married Lockie Bell Quesenberry 15 Jun 1925, Wyoming Co. WV. [Group Sheet]

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West Virginia Death Certificate
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=1310786&Type=Death
Cause of Death: Cancer of the liver

Thomas married Rachel Elizabeth Lauderback 11 Dec 1893, Jackson Co. OH. Rachel was born 13 May 1875, Lawrence Co. OH; died 15 Jan 1951, Wyoming Co. WV; was buried , Sunset Memorial Park, Beckley, Raleigh Co. WV. [Group Sheet]

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