THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, June 28, 1995 TAG: 9506280392
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B6 EDITION: FINAL
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Harold Blanton Crafts, 84, of the 100 block of Yorkshire Road, died June 27, 1995, in Chesapeake.
Mr. Crafts, a native of Richmond, was the retired owner and operator of Pleasure Crafts Tours & Crafts Bus Line. He attended St. Andrew's United Methodist Church in Portsmouth and was a member of Fitzgerald Masonic Lodge (NU)299.
Survivors include his wife, Lillie M. Crafts; a daughter, Barbara C. Mattox and her husband, Richard D. Mattox Sr. of Portsmouth; a sister, Dorothy Prather of Ashland, Va.; five grandchildren, Richard D. Mattox Jr., Rebecca A. Mattox, Barbara M. Lakey, David B. Mattox and Susan M. McNair; and eight great-grandchildren.
A funeral will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in Woody Funeral Home, Parham Road Chapel, Richmond, by the Rev. Joseph G. Savinsky. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Gardens, Richmond. The family will receive friends at Sturtevant Funeral Home, Portsmouth Blvd. Chapel, from 7 to 9 p.m. today. Memorial donations may be made to St. Andrew's United Methodist Church Organ Fund. The family will receive friends at Woody Funeral Home from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday. ILLUSTRATION: Photo
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