Columbia Daily Tribune, November 5, 200,
Columbia, Missouri

Lois Anne Welsh, 72, of Auxvasse died Friday, Nov. 3, 2000, at her home.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5, at Debo Funeral Chapel in Fulton with the Rev. John Foley officiating. Burial will be in Callaway Memorial Gardens in Fulton. Visitation is from 1 p.m. until services Sunday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Welsh was born Feb. 5, 1928, in St. Louis to Lester and Bess Watt Baetz.

She married Sherwood Craghead and was later married to Maurice Welsh, who survives.

Mrs. Welsh was a graduate of Fulton High School and a member of Grand Prairie Baptist Church of Auxvasse. She had worked at the shoe factory in Fulton during the 1950s and had worked at the Security Bank of Auxvasse for several years.

She owned Shan Anne Persians and raised and showed prize-winning Persian cats.

Other survivors include a son, Larry Craghead of Auxvasse.

She was preceded in death by a sister, June Sheets.