Anna Lou Peters Crittenden

Funeral services for Anna Lou Peters-Crittenden will be held on Friday, July 3rd, 2015 at noon at the Reed-Culver Chapel with Deacon George Cochran officiating. Visitation will be held on Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 beginning at noon until 6:00 PM. Interment will be held at Long Prairie Cemetery in Kansas, OK. Online condolences for the family may be left at www.reedculver.com.

Pallbearers for Anna include her sons and her grandsons. Her Honorary Pallbearers include her brothers and her great grandsons.

Anna Lou Peters-Crittenden was born on September 23rd, 1945 in Leach, OK, the daughter of Sam and Lucretia (McCarter) Peters. She grew up in a household with ten brothers and sisters and attended school at Kansas, OK. On October 13th, 1963, she married her husband and best friend, Gerry Crittenden at the Illinois River Baptist Church. This union was blessed with seven children and 48 years of happy memories. Anna was a dedicated wife, mother, grandmother, and a faithful member of the Long Prairie Baptist Church, supporting her husband, Gerry, who served as Deacon there for 33 years. Anna contributed her time and talents serving her church and family in any way she could. Anna worked hard to make her home a peaceful place for her family to grow. She could often be found in the kitchen making her specialties, biscuits and gravy, goulash, fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, salmon patties, and Gerry’s favorite, raisin pie. She was gifted with a needle, and all of her children had one of her homemade quilts to rest in. She tagged alongside Gerry and loved to go to the many Gospel Singing events, fishing, watch OU football, and the best for her, was attending any event that featured one of her grandchildren, cheering them on at a game. Her family was all Anna needed to be happy. Anna was strong willed, opinionated, and spit fire feisty. Gerry passed from this life in 2012. Anna began failing in health, but her spirit remained as strong as ever. The Lord called Anna to her Eternal Home on June 29th, 2015 at home, with her loved ones by her side. Anna was 69 years old.

Anna is preceded in death by her parents, her husband Gerry, three brothers, Jimmy Peters, Sam Peters Jr., and Edward Peters, and her maternal and paternal grandparents.

Those left to cherish her memory include her children, Garrick Crittenden and wife Billye of Tulsa, Granville Crittenden of Coweta, Gary Crittenden and wife Jana of Wichita, KS, Jerrold Crittenden and wife Vaniece of Catoosa, Alicia Hubbard and husband James of Claremore, Jennifer Seiler of Tulsa, and Heather Crittenden of Claremore, OK. She leaves her brothers and sisters, Joann Chupco and husband Sam of Tulsa, Norma Cochran and husband Jimmy of Houston, TX, Bert Peters of Leach, OK, Adlynn Fields and husband Billy of Kansas, OK, Johnny Peters and wife Paula of Kansas, OK, Brenda Fowler and husband Bob of Tahlequah, OK, and Donna Peters-Thompson of Decateur, AR.The light of her life, her grandchildren, include US Marine Corporal Alex Larios, Adam Crittenden, Zachary Crittenden, Travis Crittenden, Gage Crittenden, Benny Crittenden, Ethan Crittenden, Keith Crittenden, Caleb Crittenden, Tanner Crittenden, Kyle Crittenden, Reilley Crittenden-Seiler, Kade Crittenden, Elizabeth Crittenden, Raemi Crittenden-Seiler, and Isabelle Crittenden. Her legacy lives on in her great grandchildren, Ivan, Shawn, Alan, Johnnie, Paisley, Presley, Addilynne, and Myka, as well as many nieces, nephews, cousins and a host of friends and loved ones.