CRALLE, Kathryn (Brigance)

Kathryn Cralle OKLAHOMA CITY Services for former Ardmore resident Kathryn Cralle will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 17, 2007, at Smith & Kernke Chapel on North May, Oklahoma City. Interment will be at 3:30 p.m. at Rose Hill Cemetery in Ardmore. Born on Nov. 1, 1912, in Ada, the daughter of Preston Massey Brigance and Elizabeth Graham Brigance, she died on Monday, Aug. 13, 2007, in Oklahoma City. Mrs. Cralle grew up in Ardmore and attended Oklahoma College for Women at Chickasha where she studied music. While there, she met and married James S. Cralle. They moved to Oklahoma City where she was an active member of Junior Hospitality. She worked for several years as a bridal consultant at Hartwell Jewelry. Following the death of her husband in 1953, she went to work for the Oklahoma Employment Securities Commission from which she retired. Mrs. Cralle was a member of All Souls Episcopal Church. She was an avid Bridge player and a Life Master in the American Contract Bridge League. She is survived by a son, James Michael Cralle and wife, Carol lee, Woodinville, Wash.; a granddaughter, Lisa Campbell-Smith, and husband, Ian; a great-granddaughter; a brother, Edwin Brigance, and wife, Carlyss, Paris, Texas; several nieces and nephews; her Goddaughter, Nancy Suhre, and devoted caregiver, Rita Cotton. Her parents, husband, and brother, Robert Brigance, preceded her in death.