The Picayune Item

February 8, 2010

Susan Ruth Craft


Susan Ruth Craft, 55, of Bay St. Louis passed away Saturday, February 6, 2010, at Highland Community Hospital in Picayune.

Visitation will be held Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 5 p.m. at Picayune Funeral Home, followed immediately by a Memorial Service at 6 p.m., with Pastor Kathleen Potts officiating.

Susan was born in Portsmouth, Va., and moved to Bay St. Louis from Picayune four years ago. She was an office manager and a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

She was preceded in death by: her parents, John Angus and Lorraine Dawe; and brother, Thomas Dawe.

She is survived by: her husband, Dale Craft of Bay St. Louis, Miss.; adopted parents, Richard M. and Jayne Land of Atlanta, Ga.; two sons, Nicholas Dale Craft of Picayune and David Benjamin Craft of Picayune; two daughters, Rachel Lee of Bay St. Louis and Serenity Garretson of Picayune; five brothers, Earl Law of Buffalo, NY, Willard Law of Trenton, NJ, John Dawe of Atlanta, Michael Dawe of Atlanta, and David Dawe of Douglasville, Ga.; five sisters, Linda Law of Washington, D.C., Beth Dawe of Atlanta, Ellen Dawe Smith of Snellville, Ga., Heidi Sapp of McDonough, Ga., and Holly Norton of Newport News, Va.; three grandsons and one granddaughter.

Arrangements are under the direction of Picayune Funeral Home and Crematory.