1909-1998

THIS FAMILY HISTORY IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF WARDIE HOLBROOK CRAFT WHO WAS CALLED HOME IN FEBRUARY 1998. WARDIE WAS AN OLD REGULAR BAPTIST PREACHER AND A TRIED AND TRUE CHRISTIAN SOLDIER. HE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AND SERVED HIS SAVIOR, HIS FELLOW MAN AND HIS BAPTIST CONGREGATION WITH ALL HIS HEART AND SOUL.

A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in loving memory and honor of Wardie Craft.

With deepest respect, we pay homage and tribute to Wardie Craft.

WHEREAS, Wardie Craft was a retired teacher, minister, and Morgan County preservationist; and

WHEREAS, Wardie Craft was the devoted husband of Hazel Craft; and

WHEREAS, Wardie Craft was the beloved foster parent to 85 orphaned and displaced children; and

WHEREAS, Wardie Craft is survived by two adoring sisters, Rosetta Adems of Caney, and Corda Perry of McDonough, Georgia; and

WHEREAS, the passion, dedication, intelligence, and social consciousness Wardie Craft brought to his community and to the Commonwealth of Kentucky will never be forgotten, and his influence will continue through the many children whom he has helped; and

WHEREAS, Wardie Craft, along with his wife, Hazel, and many friends and residents of Morgan County worked to preserve eight shale-roofed, 19th-century log cabins that are now a part of the Memory Hill museum; and

WHEREAS, Wardie Craft, along with his wife, Hazel, established the Memory Hill Foundation to preserve the Memory Hill museum;

NOW, THEREFORE,

Be it resolved by the Senate of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

Section 1. The Senate does hereby express its profound sense of sorrow upon the passing of Wardie Craft and extends to his family its most heartfelt sympathy.

Section 2. When the Senate adjourns this day, it does so in loving memory and honor of Wardie Craft.

Section 3. The Clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to transmit a copy of this Resolution to Mrs. Hazel Craft, HC 68, Box 224, West Liberty, Kentucky 41472.