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Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday
at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Mount
Pulaski. Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday
at the funeral home, with the Rev. Kevin Treptow
officiating.
Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery,
Decatur.
Mrs. Crippen was a homemaker.
She was born March 11, 1906, at Mount Pulaski
to George Otto and Sarah Geyer Weckel. She
married Arthur Pierce Crippen in Decatur on Dec.
4, 1995, and he preceded her in death.
She was also preceded in death by one
daughter, Dorothy Barnett; four brothers; and
three sisters.
She is survived by three granddaughters,
Barbara "Bobbe" (and Robert) Long of
Hammond, Lynnette (and Joe) Connelly of
Oskaloosa, Iowa, and Lynda Millard of
Centerville, Iowa; several great-grandchildren;
several great-great-grandchildren; four nieces,
Rosetta Webb of Springfield, Emma Cundiff of
Springfield, Berle (and Robert) Mudget of Hart,
Mich., and Alice Davis of Mount Pulaski; and
three great-nieces, Kris Webb of Springfield,
Susan (and David) Kmiec of Palatine and Kathy
(and Mike) Toohey of Mount Pulaski.
She was a member of the First United
Methodist Church of Mount Pulaski, the Ruth
Circle of the church and sang in the church
choir.
Memorials may be made to Mount Pulaski First
United Methodist Church or Vonderlieth Living
Center.
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