{"id":3431,"date":"2018-11-13T15:37:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T15:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brossspidlemonuments.com\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2018-11-15T15:57:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T15:57:29","slug":"gale-reid-cravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.brossspidlemonuments.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/13\/gale-reid-cravens\/","title":{"rendered":"Gale Reid Cravens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Gale Reid Cravens, 70, Kansas City, Mo., passed away Sunday, November 11, 2018 at the NorthCare Hospice House of North Kansas City Hospital.<\/p>\n

Gale was born July 30, 1948 in Excelsior Springs, Mo., the son of Russell and Wilma Cravens.\u00a0 He was a veteran of the Vietnam War serving in Vietnam as an U.S. Army SP5 in Satellite Communications.<\/p>\n

Following his service time, he worked over 40 years with the U.S. Postal Service.\u00a0 He always liked discussing the latest news, sports and cars with friends and family.<\/p>\n

Gale was preceded in death by his parents, and his brother, Larry Cravens.<\/p>\n

Survivors include a brother, Marc Cravens and wife, Debbie, of Smithville, several nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, along with cousins, aunts and uncles.<\/p>\n

To honor Gale\u2019s wishes, a memorial service will not be held.\u00a0 In lieu of flowers, please donate to a veteran charity.\u00a0 He will be buried in the Hillcrest Cemetery in Excelsior Springs near his parents and brother.<\/p>\n

\n
Our Sincere Condolences<\/h5>\n

My heart goes out to his family. We were really great friends in the 60s. Done a lot of hanging out at the Robertson\u2019s and just driving around town. Lots of great times.
\nDavid Mckown<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gale Reid Cravens, 70, Kansas City, Mo., passed away Sunday, November 11, 2018 at the NorthCare Hospice House of North Kansas City Hospital. Gale was born July 30, 1948 in Excelsior Springs, Mo., the son of Russell and Wilma Cravens.\u00a0 He was a veteran of the Vietnam War serving in Vietnam as an U.S. Army […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.brossspidlemonuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.brossspidlemonuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.brossspidlemonuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.brossspidlemonuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.brossspidlemonuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/staging.brossspidlemonuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/staging.brossspidlemonuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions\/3439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.brossspidlemonuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.brossspidlemonuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.brossspidlemonuments.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}