Dianne Margaret Friedt

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      Sex: F

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Individual Information

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          Birth: 23 Dec 1938 - Billings, Yellowstone Co, MT 1
    Christening: 
          Death: 8 Nov 1996 - Ponca City, , OK 1
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: 
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Events

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• Soc Sec Num ¹, 516-40-7533
• Obituary, The Ponca City News, 10 Nov 1996 in Ponca City, , OK

Dianne Margaret Becraft
Dianne Margaret (Friedt) Becraft, longtime Ponca City resident, died Friday evening, Nov. 8, 1996, at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center. She was 57.
A remembrance gathering will be held at a later date. Arrangements are under the direction of Grace Memorial Chapel. No visitation is scheduled at the funeral home.
Dianne was born in Billings, Mont., on Dec. 23, 1938, the daughter of Sebastian Martin and Frances (Smith) Friedt. She grew up in Billings and graduated from Billings Senior High School in 1957.
On June 15, 1958, she was married to Lloyd G. Becraft in Billings and they lived in Bozeman, Mont., for 3 1/2 years while Lloyd attended graduate school at Montana State College. Dianne and her husband moved to Ponca City in 1962, where she immediately became involved in volunteer community activities.
She was an active member of the Ponca City Jaycee Jaynes serving as president in 1966-67. The Jaynes presented her with a life membership in 1972, when her husband aged out of the Jaycees. She was also active in the Oklahoma State Jaycee Auxiliary, serving as State Mental Health Chairman and State Historian. Other volunteer organizations in which she was active included the Opportunity Center, Child Development Center, United Way, and Girl Scouts of America. Many people will remember her as a precinct election judge when Woodlands Elementary School was a voting site.
In recent years, she was an active volunteer for the Ponca City Humane Society and was named one of its outstanding volunteers in 1994. For a number of years, she cared for babies and young children in her home and was known affectionately as "Aunt Dianne" to many Ponca City children and their parents. She was a kind and generous person and loved doing things for others. She was an avid reader and enjoyed listening to classical music.
Survivors include her husband, Lloyd, of Ponca City; one daughter, Wanda (Becraft) Neufer and her husband Greg, of San Mateo, Calif.; one son, Warren Russell Becraft of Singapore; one grandson, Tyler Alexander Neufer of San Mateo, Calif.; her mother, Frances Friedt of Billings, Mont.; and two sisters, Laverne McComas of Billings Mont., and Catherine Helzer of Kalispell, Mont.
Memorial contributions may be made in Dianne Becraft's name to the Ponca City Humane Society, P.O. Box 2311, Ponca City, OK 74602.
paid obituary

Services Pending

• Obituary, The Ponca City News, 22 Nov 1996

Funerals
Saturday
Dianne Becraft - A remembrance celebration will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Marland Mansion Chapel for Dianne Becraft, who died Nov. 8 in Ponca City. The family requests no live plants or flowers be offered for the remembrance, but memorial contributions may be made in Mrs. Becraft's name to the Ponca City Humane Society, P.O. Box 2311, Ponca City, OK 74602.

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Spouses and Children

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1. *Lloyd Grainger Becraft
       Marriage: 15 Jun 1958 - Billings, Yellowstone Co, MT
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Wanda Becraft
                2. Warren Russell Becraft

Sources

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1. U.S. Government, Social Security Death Index.

1 U.S. Government, Social Security Death Index.