MAE CRITES AND JESS LARIMER

Jesse and Etta Mae Larimer - October 10, 1966 - xerox photo courtesy of Judith Dillard - 2008 (click on image to enlarge)
"Aunt Mae and Uncle Jess' 50th Anniversary 1969.
Etta Mae Crites (B-2217113) (c-50) was the third child and eldest daughter of Leona Belle (Weaver) and John Franklin Crites. She was born on the 16th of April, 1900, in North Webster, Kosciusko County, Indiana. She died in 1970.
Mae was married to Jesse (called Jess) Larimer. He was born on the 7th of October1886 in North Judson, Green County, Indiana. His mother was Lorina (Roberts) and his father was Joe Larimer.
Aunt Mae and Uncle Jess were married on the 30th of 1919 in the Minot Methodist Church, in Minot, North Dakota.
Etta Mae Crites Larimer (called Mae) attended Minot School at Minot, Ward County, North Dakota and Live Oak School at Live Oak, California. She went as far as the 8th. grade.
As a child she was happy and loved to sing. However, at the age of 15 she was badly injured when a horse lunged throwing her at the base of a hayrack. Mae was knocked unconscious, then awoke only to lapse into unconscious again. She had rib injuries but many in the family believed that she suffered a skull fracture or sever concussion as well. According to general family belief was never the same after the accident.
Mae is buried next to her daughter Bonnie McDougal at Loma Vista Cemetery in Fullerton, California. The graves are in an old part of the cemetery near a tiled roof building.

WYOTA AND RICHARD CRITES

Wyota and Richard Crites - Xerox copy - Shared by Judith Dillard with the Crites Family Photos blog 2008 (click on image to enlarge)

This faded photograph of Wyota and Richard Crites was taken in 1982. Aunt Wyota was 62 years old. Uncle Dick was 70.
Wyota Elizabeth Crites was born on the 1st of January, 1920 in Minot, Ward County, North Dakota.

RICHARD CRITES 1974

Richard Crites Sr. - Xerox copy photograph shared with the Crites Family Pictures Blog by Judith Dillard 2008. (click on image to enlarge)

Dick Crites was born on a homestead near Hinsdale, Montana in 1916, just prior to the First World War. He was very much a man of the American West, living the last years of his life in Texas.
Richard Crites and his wife Wyotta were married in 1937 in Minot, North Dakota. They had six children, five of whom are still living.


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RICHARD CRITES 1943

Xerox copy of Richard Crites Sr. - shared with this Crites Family blog by Judith Dillard 2008. (click on image to enlarge)

Richard Crites was called Dick by his parents and siblings. He was the 8th child of Leona and John Franklin Crites, and as such his older brothers and sisters knew him chiefly through family letters and occasional visits when he reached adulthood. This photograph was taken on March 29th, 1943. His younger brother Kenneth Crites also served in the Second World War. An older brother John died from a machine gun accident while on duty at a North Dakota National Guard Camp at Devil's Lake.

BOB RICHARDS AND RICHARD CRITES

Robert Richards and Richard F. Crites (click on photo to enlarge)
This is a xerox copy of a snapshot taken in Everett, Washington. It is shared with this Crites Family Photo blog by Judith Dillard 2008.
Robert Kenneth Richards Junior to the left is the great-grandson of Josiah and Mary Ann Secrist Crites. He continues to live near Everett, Washington in 2008.
Richard Franklin Crites Senior was born on the 28th of July, 1916 in Hinsdale Valley, Montana.. Dick was the son of Leona Belle (Weaver) and John Franklin Crites. He had a lifelong military career.

RICHARD CRITES BRONZE STAR IN KOREA

MINOTER GETS BRONZE STAR FOR RESCUE IN KOREA
Master Sergeant Richard F. Crites of Minot, (North Dakota), now stationed at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, has been awarded the bronze star medal with letter “V” attachment for “heroic achievement in connection with military operations against an enemy of the United States.”
The incident occurred on September 5, 1950, in the vicinity of Changnyong, Korea, where Crites, then sergeant first class, was serving with Company H., 23rd infantry regiment, Second Infantry Division.
He was a member of a machine gun section attached to a rifle company during an attack on an enemy-held hill. After the hill was taken, the section sergeant was wounded by enemy machine gun fire and was pinned down in an exposed position. Sergeant Crites twice attempted to rescue him, but each time was driven back by intense enemy fire. On his third attempt, he succeeded in reaching the wounded soldier and under heavy hostile fire, brought him to safety.

The Rebbes and Jerry Fecht - June 2008

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Genevieve (Fecht) and her husband Owen Rebbe with her brother Jerry Fecht, June 2008 in Cedar Falls, Washington.
The Rebbes recently sold their home in northern Washington and relocated to Cedar Falls to be near their family members.
Both Jerry and Genevieve are the great grand children of Josiah and Mary Ann (Secrist) Crites.