Beecroft/Becraft Ancestors



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Earl Leroy Becraft and Karen L Wagner



Husband Earl Leroy Becraft [741]

           Born: 24 Mar 1948 - Maryland, United States 1 2 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 24 Nov 1999 - Northwest Florida Community Hospital, FL 1 3


         Buried: 2 Dec 1999 - Florida National Cemetery, Bushnell, Sumter Co, FL 1 4 5
FamilySearch ID: GJ9T-KJ4
Find A Grave ID: 346793


         Father: Auston Allen Becraft [570] (1909-2000)
         Mother: Alice May Nash [737] (1919-1993)


       Marriage: 

Events

• Military: US Marine Corps, CPL, Vietnam.

• He resided at Vernon, FL.

• Soc Sec Num: 217-44-5526.

• His obituary was published in the Holmes County Advertiser/Washington County Post on 1 Dec 1999. Earl Leroy Becraft, age 51 of Vernon, passed away Nov 24, 1999 at Northwest Florida Community Hospital in Chipley.

Funeral services were held at the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, Florida with the Marine Corps Chaplin officiating. Peel Funeral Home was in charge of services.

He is survived by his wife Rebecca Edwards Becraft of Vernon; father Austin Becraft of Maryland; sons Anthony Earl Becraft of Havelock, North Carolina and Christoper Allen Becraft of Vernon; brother Roland Becraft of Maryland; sister Mary Alice Hardisty of Maryland; granddaughter Faith Marie Becraft.

(SOURCE: Holmes County Advertiser/Washington County Post, Bonifay (Holmes County) FL, Wednesday, December 1, 1999; Page 19. Transcribed by Cathy Strickland Popp, December 2000; I'm sorry but I don't have any additional information -- just a transcriber)



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Wife Karen L Wagner [885] 6




           Born: 20 Jan 1952 - Bethesda, Montgomery, Maryland, United States 3 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 31 Oct 2005 - St. Anthony's Hospital, St. Petersburg, , FL 3 6
         Buried: 

   Other Spouse: Ben Kirk Stone [5800]

Events

• Her obituary was published. Karen Lynn Stone-Becraft
Born in Bethesda, Maryland on Jan. 20, 1952
Departed on Oct. 31, 2005 and resided in St. Petersburg, FL.
Visitation: Saturday Nov. 5, 2005
Service: Saturday Nov. 5, 2005

Stone-Becraft, Karen Lynn, 53, of St. Petersburg, died, Monday (October 31, 2005) at St. Anthony's Hospital. Born in Bethesda, Maryland, she came here in 1971 from Burtonsville, Maryland. She received a B.A. degree in Mass Communications from the University of South Florida in 1979. She retired from Honeywell as a logistics engineer. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of St. Petersburg, the National Wildlife Federation, and was an avid golfer. Survivors include her husband, Ben Stone; a daughter, Holly Becraft-Jones, Boynton Beach, FL; a brother, Karl Wagner, Dunedin; a sister, Nancy Wagner-Williams, St. Petersburg; and two grandchildren. Anderson-McQueen Funeral & Cremation Centers-NE St. Petersburg.

• Soc Sec Num: 220-58-7255.


Children
1 F Holly Dawn Becraft [886] (details suppressed for this person)

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Robert Bryan Jones [1913] (living)



Burial Notes: Husband - Earl Leroy Becraft

Becraft, Earl Leroy, b. 03/24/1948, d. 11/24/1999, US Marine Corps, CPL, Res: Vernon, FL, Plot: 402 0 649, bur. 12/02/1999

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Sources


1 Cemetery Transcription Library, interment.net.

2 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 7 Nov 2025), entry for Earl Leroy Becraft, person ID GJ9T-KJ4.

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

4 gravelocator.cem.va.gov.

5 Findagrave.com.

6 http://www.eons.com.


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