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Visitation
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Salem Christian Union Church
Excelsior Springs
10-11:30 a.m.

Service
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Salem Christian Union Church
Excelsior Springs
11:30 a.m.
Mary Elaine Cravens

Mary Elaine Cravens of Excelsior Springs, Mo., passed away on August 28, 2015.

Mary was born May 17, 1942 in Boone, Iowa, to parents Clarence Carlson and Ruth Lantz. She graduated from United Community High School in 1960. She worked at Bourn’s in Ames, Iowa, until starting her own Heavy Equipment Escorting Service which took her all over the United States. She later met the man of her dreams, Harold L. Cravens of Excelsior Springs, Mo., and married on December 2, 1989.

She is preceded in death by her first husband, Richard Lindeman, her parents, and sister, Clarice Mitchell.

Mary is survived by her husband, Harold; sisters, Janice (Fay) Reitz of Camdenton, Mo.; Delores (Al) Reynolds of Webster City, Iowa; Karen (Gary) Feakes of Ames, Iowa; and numerous nieces, nephews, grandnieces, and grandnephews.

A visitation will be held Saturday, September 5, 2015 from 10 to 11:30 a.m., with a service to follow at 11:30 a.m. at Salem Christian Union Church in Excelsior Springs, Mo. She will be buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Excelsior Springs, Mo.

Arrangements are through Bross & Spidle Funeral Home, Excelsior Springs.




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