CRANFORD, Donnie B. (Palmer) - b. March 8, 1926 - d. April 6, 2003

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Winfield Daily Courier
Tuesday, April 8, 2003

MOLINE--- Donnie B. Cranford, 77, of Moline, died April 6, 2003, at her home.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Moline Christian Church.  Pastor Gary Boles will officiate.  Burial will be at 4 p.m. in the Lula, Okla. cemetery.

A memorial has been established with the Moline Christian church.  Contributions may be made through Zimmerman Funeral Home of Howard.

Cranfod was born March 8, 1926, in Tupelo, Okla., to Ruth Mae (Mooney) and Joseph Don Carlus Palmer.  She attended school near Tupelo.

On Nov. 10, 1943, she married John Wesley Cranford in Stonewall, Okla.  They moved to Elk County in the early 1950s, and she worked at locker businesses in Howard and Moline.  In 1968 she and her family moved to Ulysses and she owned and operated a restaurant in Moscow for several years.  They returned to the Howard community in the late 1970s and she operated Donnie's Deli  before moving to Missouri.  In the mid 1990s she and her husband moved to Moline.

Late in life Cranford earned her General Equivalency Diploma and completed a course in dietetics.  She was employed as a dietitian and was known for her baking.

She was a member of the Carter-Rader American Legion Post 149 Auxilary in Howard and the Moline Christian Church.

Survivors include her husband, John Cranford, Moline; a daughter, Malinda Lee, Howard; three sons, Kenneth Cranford, Carlus Cranford and Jeric Cranford, addresses unknown; 10 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.