- Date Of Death: October 30, 2013
- State: Georgia
Mrs. Velma Saddell Crawford, age 99 of Clermont. Mrs. Crawford passed away Wednesday, October 30, 2013.
Velma was born in Smithfield, Ohio on September 24, 1914 to the late James Mehollin and Mae Kitchcart Mehollin. She was raised on the family farm in Ohio where she dug coal to heat the house, raised and canned vegetables and milked cows. Until high school, she rode her horse to a one room schoolhouse, she and her sister would even race their horses at the local fair. In 1932, Velma graduated high school and later graduated from the Alliance Hospital Training School. It was on her first day as a nurse, that Velma met Charles Ditson “C.D.” Crawford. He would become her loving husband, a relationship that would last 52 years, until his death in 1991.
Velma has two children, Jim and wife Virginia live in Clermont, Jane and her husband Wayne Myer reside in Golden, CO.
Her grandchildren include Diane, Ryan and Sheila, Tammy and Jamie, James and Jill, Martha and Carlton and Crawford and Amy.
