Donald Keith Becraft
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 24 Mar 1927 - Downing, Schuyler Co, MO 1
Christening:
Death: 14 Dec 2004 - Moberly, Randolph Co, MO 1
Burial: 18 Dec 2004 - Oakland Cemetery, Moberly, Randolph Co, MO
Cause of Death:
AFN :
Events
• Occupation, Jeweler
• Soc Sec Num, 497-30-9073
• URL, http://www.becraftjewelers.com/
• Census, 1930 Census, 1930 in Miller, Scotland Co, MO
Wm Becraft, age 47, born in MO, head of household with wife, Bessie L, age 40; children Marjorie age 17; Vetrice age 16; Lowell age 14; Russel age 11; Millard age 9; Robert age 8; Dorine age 6; Eugene age 4 and Donald age 3.• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 24 Sep 1958
Repair Department• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 2 Jan 1960
Don Becraft has purchased the watch and jewelry repari deparmtne of the Kamp Jewelry store...
Donald Keith Becraft, 812 Monroe avenue, admitted Thursday.• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 5 Jan 1960
Donald Keith Becraft, 812 Monroe avenue, dismissed yesterday.• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 3 Oct 1961
Attend State Meeting• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 3 Oct 1964
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Kemp of Kemp Jewelry and Don Becraft of the same firm recently attended the retail jewelers and watchmakers convention, held at the Gover-...
"Don Becraft, who has our repair department, is now vice-president of the Missouri Watchmakers Association ...• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 7 Dec 1964
Don Becraft who has been with Kemp Jewelry Store will open a new jewelry store as well as repairing at ???...• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 8 Jan 1965
Don Becraft is opening a new jewelry store at 503 West Reed street. He has been with T. W. Kemp Jewelry Store ...• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 26 Jul 1965
At Service Clinic• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 15 Sep 1965
Don Becraft and Gary Patrick of Becraft Jewelry attended the Acculron Service Clinic held Sunday at the Holiday Inn, Kan-...
..., was driving a 1961 Chevrolet sedan that struck the parked 1960 Ford sedan of Donald K. Becraft, 812 Monroe.• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 27 Sep 1965
The police quoted Miss Quint as saying that she was drinking soda pop and her hands...
Don Becraft is Named President (Headline)• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 29 Mar 1966
At Service Clinic• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 13 Aug 1966
Don Becraft and Gary Patrick of Becraft Jewelry attended the Bulova Accutron Service Clinic held during the week...
Special Training• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 21 Feb 1967
Don Becraft of Becraft Jewelry has graduated from the Accumen course in electronic ...
Course on Diamonds• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 22 Aug 1967
Don Becraft, owner and operator of Becraft Jewelry Company, 503 West Reed, spent Monday through Friday last week in Kansas City attending...
Donald Keith Becraft, 812 Monroe, speeding, $15.• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 19 Feb 1968
Don Becraft• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 15 Mar 1968
Don Becraft of Becraft Jewelers, moberly, was among a select group of jewelry experts...
... Cheryl J Patrick, 1000 North Ault, and the parked car of Donald K. Becraft, 8?? Monroe avenue.• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 27 Apr 1968
Mrs. Patrick told police that the accident occurred when she ...
The Retail Committee of the Chamber of Commerce set July 28 for Moonlight Madness with Don Becraft chairman. Aug 8 will be Sidewalk Bazaar day, with Dan Cleaver in charge.• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 3 Nov 1969
Larger Quarters• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 31 Dec 1969
Don Becraft Jewelry Store will move Jan 1 from its present location, 503 West Reed to ...
Becraft Store in New Location• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 9 Apr 1970
Becraft's Jewelry opened for business Tuesday morning ...
...From Ohio Meeting• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 18 Apr 1970
Don Becraft of Becraft Jewelry Company returned Tuesday night from Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended the 26th ...
Donald K. Becraft, 308 Circle Drive, $15.• Visit, Moberly Monitor-Index, 26 May 1970
Don Becraft, 802 Circle Drive, has returned from a trip to Florida. He visited his mother-in-law, Mrs. J. Y. ???, at Newport Richey and his brother, Russell Becraft at Tampa, Fla.• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 9 Aug 1971
Buy Building• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 31 Jul 1972
Mr. and Mrs. Don Becraft of Becraft Jewelry Store have purchased the building where they are located at 507 West Reed...
..door at the Becraft Jewelry Co, at 507 West Reed, were damaged by vandalism sometime between 9:20p.m. Friday and 8:30 Saturday morning, police report.• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 2 Aug 1972
Don Becraft, owner, notified police Saturday morning.
Other businesses reporting damaged windows over the weekend including Becraft Jewlry Store, Heckler's S??? Store, Thompson's Magnavox Co, KWIX Building and Keller's Office...• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 25 Sep 1972
... a driveway at 806 Union and his car struck the eastbound car of Donald Becraft, 320 Circle Drive, damaging both cars.• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 19 Mar 1973
Don K. Becraft, 302 Circle Dr.• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 24 Mar 1973
Donald Keith Becraft, 302 Circle Drive, after recent operation.• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 4 May 1973
At 5:53 p.m. in the 200 block of East Coates, Don Becraft, 302 Circle drive, westbound, stopped in traffic, and his car was struck from the rear by the ...• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 14 Jan 1974
Donald Keith Becraft, 302 Circle Drive• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 15 Jan 1974
Donald K. Becraft, 302 Circle Drive.• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 2 Apr 1974
Dismissed Saturday:• Event, Moberly Monitor-Index, 22 Sep 1977
Donald K. Becraft, Moberly
At Becraft's• Obituary, 17 Dec 2004 in Jefferson City, MO
Don Becraft, owner of Becraft's Jewelry; 507 West Reed, has notified police that a ...
Don Becraft, age 77, of Moberly, Mo., died Tuesday, December 14, 2004.• Obituary, Memphis Democrat, 23 Dec 2004
He was born March 24, 1927, on the family farm near Downing, Mo., a son of William & Bessie Becraft. He married Thelma Orr Mohney on December 11, 2003. She survives at the home.
He was a well-known businessman, owner of Becraft Jewelers in Downtown Moberly. He was a member and past president of the Missouri Jewelers.
Visitation will be from 3-7 p.m. Friday, December 17, at Cater's Funeral Home with a Masonic Service at 6:45 p.m.
Services at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, December 18, at Cater Funeral Home, Moberly, Mo. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery with with Rev. Michael Anthony and Rev. Wallis Landrum officiating.
Well-known Moberly businessman Don Becraft dies after heart attack
A well-known Moberly businessman, Don Becraft, owner of Becraft Jewelers in downtown Moberly, died Tuesday shortly after noon at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia.
Mr. Becraft, 77, suffered a cardiac arrest in Moberly on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 12, 2004, and was resuscitated at the scene by emergency personnel, stabilized at Moberly Regional Medical Center and then transported to Boone Hospital Center in Columbia.
Mr. Becraft was born March 24, 1927, on the family farm near Downing, Mo., a son of William and Bessie Mathes Becraft. He was a graduate of Memphis High School.
Donald Keith Becraft built a life for himself and his family while building his career. Since 1950, the prominent businessman had attended Carpenter Street Baptist Church, where he also taught Sunday School for about 15 years. He was a member and past president of the Missouri Jewelers. Since 1976, Mr. Becraft had been a member of the American Gem Society comprised of an elite group of jewelers who had to earn a degree to join.
He was also a member and past president of the Moberly Optimist Club and a member of the Masonic Lodge and Coon Creek Shrine Club, attending the annual Christmas party Saturday night with his wife on their first anniversary.
He also belonged to Main Street Moberly, formerly the Downtown Association.
During his junior and senior years of high school, Don worked part-time at a jewelry store because of his interest in that field. During this time, he took his watchmakers apprentice training.
Mr. Becraft worked for the jeweler three years until an opportunity to work in Moberly arose. He was employed at the former T. W. Kamp Jewelry for a year and one-half while Kamp's son-in-law was in the Army. When the son-in-law returned and Don was without a job, Mr. Kamp helped Don find a position with a jeweler in Columbia. He worked there for about a year and a half, returning to work at Kamp's when the son-in-law entered the ministry.
Mr. Becraft purchased the repair department of Kamp's business in 1958 and owned the repair department until 1964 when he started his own jewelry store, Becraft Jewelers. He expanded his business in Moberly in 2004 by adding The Jewelry Box, located east of his long established shop on Reed Street in downtown Moberly.
Mr. Becraft often related that his interest in jewelry was born of physical limitation due to childhood polio. He found an old clock and repaired it and that's what got him started. "I was kind of good with my hands working. I don't think I would have been good for any physical labor on a farm or anything. I wasn't cut out for that so I decided to get into the jewelry business and I've been in it ever since I was a junior in high school," he recalled.
He married Thelma Orr Mohney on Dec. 11, 2003, at Coates Street Presbyterian Church in Moberly. She survives of the home.
Also surviving are a daughter, Cheryl Lucille Becraft Crawford, and her husband, Harold Leon Crawford, and a granddaughter, Ashley Brook Crawford, all of Rockaway Beach; two grandsons whom Mr. Becraft reared, Christopher Dru Milcik, and his wife, Jamie, of Moberly; and Justin Shea Milcik, of Columbia; four sisters: Florence E. Becraft, Bloomfield, Iowa; Beulah Evans, Lelah Goins,and Callie and husband, William S. Moore, all of Memphis, Mo.; a brother, Russell Ray Becraft and his wife, Dovie L. Becraft, Tampa, Fla.; and extended family members: Jim Orr and wife, Shelia, of Lee's Summit; Bill Orr and wife, Jadeania, Moberly; Jerry Orr and wife, Becky, also of Moberly; John Mohney and wife, Carlyn, O'Fallon; Jay Moore and wife, Carole, Liberty; Betty Moore Bell, Moberly; grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, Patsy Ruth Becraft; sister, Jewell E. Becraft; brothers, Lowell H. , Millard W., Robert L. and Albert E. Becraft.
The family suggests a Memorial for Don Becraft at Carpenter Street Baptist Church, 501 East Carpenter Street, Moberly, Mo., 65270 (phone 660-263-6201).
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004, at Cater Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery with Rev. Michael Anthony of Carpenter Street Baptist Church and Rev. Wallis Landrum of Coates Street Presbyterian Church officiating.
Visitation will be Friday from 3 until 7 p.m. at Cater's with a Masonic service at 6:45 p.m.
Parents
Father: William Millard Becraft 2
Mother: Bessie Lee Mathes 3
Spouses and Children
1. *Patricia "Patsy" Ruth Pierce 4
Marriage: 18 Aug 1960 - Moberly, Randolph Co, MO
Status:
Children:
1. Cheryl Lucille Becraft
2. Thema Orr Mohney
Sources
1. U.S. Government, Social Security Death Index.
2. dad1037@yahoo.com (Emails, etc from her sources.), "Millard."
3. My Family Lines, Wendy Muir (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com).
4. dad1037@yahoo.com (Emails, etc from her sources.)