Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 4, 1990                   TAG: 9007040027
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: HOLIDAY 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: CORAL SPRINGS, FLA.                                  LENGTH: Short

OBIT CRAFT, A.

Alvin Craft, age 65, of Coral Springs, Fla., died Sunday, July 1, 1990. He was a member of the Samuel Gompers-Benjamin Franklin Lodge #45, Washington, D.C., the Seminole Lodge #304, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the Scottish Rite of Free Masonry, and a member of Mahi Shrine Temple of Miami, Fla. Surviving are his wife, Rubye Vaught Craft; son, Ed Craft, Royal Oak, Mich.; daughters, Roxanne Weiss, Miami, Fla.; Karen Craft, Atlanta, Ga.; two granddaughters; stepdaughters, Elaine Waters, Durham, N.C.; Joan Dunton, Yorktown, Va.; mother-in-law, Mrs. Bea Foss, Salem; brother-in-law, Charles Vaught, Salem; sister-in-law, Mickey Sutherland Cratch, Roanoke. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to the Scottish Rite Language Disorder Clinic, c/o Roanoke Scottish Rite, 622 Campbell Ave., Roanoke, Va. 24016. Graveside services will be 2:30 p.m. Thursday in Temple Emanuel Cemetery with Rabbi Frank Muller officiating. The Masonic grave rites will be conducted by Virginia Heights Masonic Lodge as a courtesy to Samuel Gompers-Benjamin Franklin Lodge. Friends may call at 3567 Windsor Rd., S.W. Arrangements by Oakey's Roanoke