Vermont, Vital Records
Name: Martha Ann Crafts
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 04 Mar 1935
Event Place: Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont
Gender: Female
Father's Name: Joseph Burton Crafts
Mother's Name: Viola Sheppard Lyle
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Find A Grave Memorial# 124607997
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Martha Ann Crafts Pardee, 78, The Villages, Fla. died on Sunday, February 2, 2014. She was born on March 4, 1935 and moved from Waterford, Conn. to Orange Blossom Gardens, Lady Lake, Fla. in 1989.
Martha graduated from Vermont's Wilmington High School and Castleton Teachers College, Class of 1957. She and her late husband, Sherwood W. Pardee, of Old Saybrook, Conn. were married in 1958. She was always a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and friend. She loved teaching first grade for 14 years. Although having a disabling stroke over 40 years ago, Martha still enjoyed flower gardening, trimming her Bonsai trees, adding to her large Easter egg collection and preserving antique quilts.
Survivors include her son, Alan Sherwood Pardee, his wife Denise and their children Celine, Evan and Emily of Alburgh, Vt.; and Martha's devoted daughter and caregiver, Ruth Lyle Pardee Reighley. There will be a private committal service of her ashes in Franklin, Vt. at the family's convenience this summer.
BEYERS FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORY, Lady Lake/The Villages, Fla. is in charge of arrangements.
Published in Brattleboro Reformer on Feb. 4, 2014
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USA Census, 1940
Name: Martha Crafts
Event Place: Wilmington Town, Windham, Vermont
Gender: Female
Age: 5
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter
Birthplace: Vermont
Birth Year (Estimated): 1935
Last Place of Residence: Same House
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Burton Crafts Head M 34 Vermont
Viola Crafts Wife F 35 New York
George Crafts Son M 7 Vermont
Martha Crafts Daughter F 5 Vermont
District: 13-44 , Family Number: 50 , Sheet Number and Letter: 3A , Line Number: 34 , Digital Folder Number: 005461787 , Image Number: 00861