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Obit For Bertha Pauline (Essary) Friend
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Text B. Pauline Friend, 72, of Crane, did June 11 at 2:08 p.m. at Ozark Mountain Health Care Center in Crane.

Mrs. Friend was born April 6, 1930, in Barry County, the daughter of Efton and Flossie Hunter Essary. She was a farmer.

Survivors include one son, Bill Friend of Reeds Spring; two daughters, Debra Brewer of Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Regina Jay of Neosho; one brother, Dennis Essary of Monett; and two sisters, Aline Rainwater of Crane and Norma Kirk of Lampe.

She was preceded in death by two sons, Charles and Kenneth Friend; three brothers and three sisters.

Services were 2 p.m. today, June 13, at Crafton-Cantrell Chapel in Aurora. Burial was in Osa Cemetery south of Aurora under the direction of Crafton-Cantrell Funeral Home of Aurora.

Memorials may be made to Shriners Crippled Children's Hospital.
Newspaper or Funeral Home Monett Times
Date June 13, 2002
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