Mary Cradick Doles, 92, of Greensburg, went to meet our Lord and Savior on Saturday, July 25, 2020. Mary was born on April 9, 1928 in Gosport, Indiana. She was the daughter of Estil Glea and Helen (Dagley) Cradick.
Mary moved to Greensburg when she was two. She was a 1946 graduate of Greensburg High School and a 1949 graduate of Indiana University. She married Al Doles on New Year’s Eve, 1949, and they celebrated 69 years of marriage before Al passed away.
Mary taught second grade for twenty years at Billings Elementary. She was a church organist at First Christian Church and Sandcreek Baptist Church, and she also played for Sunday afternoon services which she and Al led at Crown Pointe Senior Living Community. In their early senior years, Mary and Al enjoyed camping, spending winters in Florida, and traveling to places like the Holy Land to visit Steve and Joy, and to Hawaii for their 50 th wedding anniversary. Mary enjoyed sewing, baking pies, and volunteering at the hospital and for cancer survivor fundraisers. She would tell you that her most favorite role in the whole wide world was to be Al’s wife, and life didn’t seem the same to her without him.
Survivors include her children, William (Shirley) Doles, Diane (Charles) Beggs, and Steve (Joy) Doles. Also surviving are her grandchildren, Jeff (Cari) Beggs, David Beggs, Katie (Mike) McNealy, Tony (Simone) Doles, Stepheni Doles, Jaquan Doles, Travon Doles, and BayLynn Doles, and eleven great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, two brothers, Estil Glea Cradick, Jr. and Howard Duane Cradick, one sister who died in infancy, and one granddaughter, Andria Joy Doles.
A graveside service, following CDC social distancing and facial covering guidelines, will be held at South Park Cemetery on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 11AM with Rev. Harold Carter officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Sandcreek Baptist Church, The Gideons International or the donor’s choice. Online Condolences may be made to the family at www.gilliland-howe.com.
Psalm 23 was one of Mary’s favorite psalms. Her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren are comforted to know that she is now able to “dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
