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Vineta Craig


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Posted Online: Nov. 30, 2012, 5:17 pm
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Vineta Irene Craig, Davenport, passed away on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012 at Manor Care, Utica Ridge, Davenport.
Services are 11 a.m. Monday at Runge, Davenport, with visitation one hour prior. Burial is at Davenport Memorial Park.
She was born Dec. 17, 1928, in Mill Grove, Mo., to William Harley and Sylvia Della Kinnison Miller. She married Roy Dean Craig in 1951. She later married Byron Personns. He died in 2000.
Surviving are her daughter, Pam Anderson, Eldridge; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; sister, Elizabeth Harmon.














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