Butler County Genealogy Trails Kansas Fleta Lawrance Crawford Bio

BUTLER COUNTY'S EIGHTY YEARS BIOS

FLETA LAWRANCE CRAWFORD

(Transcribed by Peg Luce)

There is an exquisite harmony in the universe and, while many mortals may sense it, few can seize it and translate it into finite form. Such a one was Fleta Lawrance Crawford, whose death stirred the great deeps of regret wherever she was known. She possessed within herself the essential soul of music, little short of genius; it flowed from her finger tips in a rhapsody of cadence and a beauty of expression that never failed to arouse inspiration in others. There was fire, there was grace, there was joy, there was lofty and ennobling animation in her renditions. The spirit of music moved itself aright in the inmost recesses of her being, and it was her outstanding gift to stir a musical emotion in others – even those who never sing, alas, “but die with all their music in them.”

The musical talent was her glory. Sustaining it was a personable character of rare charm. Her passing, just upon the threshold of maturity, incurs a grievous loss to husband, to children, to parents, to brothers, to friends, to the community that knew and loved her all her too-short life – a loss that somehow can never be filled. May, 1932.