{"id":67942,"date":"2015-09-15T14:50:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T19:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=67942"},"modified":"2015-09-16T06:43:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T11:43:40","slug":"cecil-e-ed-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/09\/15\/cecil-e-ed-crawford\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecil Edward Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cecil Edward \u201cEd\u201d Crawford, 79, of Grover Hill, died at 7 a.m. Tuesday, September 15, 2015, at the Van Wert Area Inpatient Hospice Center.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67943\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67943\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Cecil-Edward-Crawford-obit-photo-9-2015.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67943 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Cecil Edward Crawford\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Cecil-Edward-Crawford-obit-photo-9-2015.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Cecil Edward Crawford<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He was born August 27, 1936, in Clover, South Carolina, the son of Raymond S. and Edith (McCarter) Crawford, who both preceded him in death. He married Dorothy E. (Dotson) Crawford, who survives in Grover Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include four children, Steven L. (Jane) Crawford of Van Wert, Randy A. (Brenda) Crawford of Paulding, Susan K. (Chet) Ridenour of Lancaster and Tony E. (Lisa) Crawford of Convoy; two brothers, Jerry (Frances) Crawford of North Carolina and Rooney Crawford of South Carolina; eight grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Crawford retired as a tester with General Portland after 43 years. He was a member of Liberty Baptist Church in Van Wert and was a U.S. Army veteran serving in the Korean Conflict.<\/p>\n<p><b>Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, September 19, at Liberty Baptist Church, with Pastor Jim Burns officiating.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Calling hours are from 1-2 p.m. Saturday at the church.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Preferred memorials: American Cancer Society.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Alspach-Gearhart Funeral Home &amp; Crematory in Van Wert is handling arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be expressed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alspachgearhart.com\">www.alspachgearhart.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cecil Edward \u201cEd\u201d Crawford, 79, of Grover Hill, died at 7 a.m. Tuesday, September 15, 2015, at the Van Wert Area Inpatient Hospice Center. He was born August 27, 1936, in Clover, South Carolina, the son of Raymond S. and Edith (McCarter) Crawford, who both preceded him in death. He married Dorothy E. (Dotson) Crawford, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 18:44:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}