Dorothy Andrus Crane (1902-2002)

Dorothy Andrus Crane Price
Grandma Price
Born:	4 Feb 1902 Congo, Ohio
Died:	11 Nov 2002 Petoskey, Michigan
Father:	Guy Gilman Crane
Mother:	Edith Stanley Andrus
Siblings:	Gladys Faith Crane Dorothy Andrus Crane Roderic Dwight Crane Baby boy Crane Elizabeth Helen Crane
Married:	9 Feb 1922 Lansing, Michigan
Spouse:	Donald Arthur Price
Children:	Donna Joanne Price Patricia Ellen Price Baby girl Price James Douglas Price Dorothy Elaine Price

Obituary

Petoskey News-Review, Thursday, 14 Nov 2002, p. A2:

Dorothy Price, 100 

Dorothy Price, 100, of Petoskey, died Nov. 11, 2002, at Sunnybank Assisted Living. She was born in Congo, Ohio, on Feb. 4, 1902, the daughter of Guy and Edith (Andrus) Crane.

Her family lived in several towns in Ohio and Illinois before moving to Michigan. She graduated from Lansing High School in 1921, and on Feb. 9, 1922, she married Donald Price in Lansing.

Dorothy and Donald also lived in Florida, and during the Great Depression, homesteaded in the mountains of Northern California. There they built and lived in a log cabin, enduring many hardships. In 1933, they moved to Bangor, Maine, and finally returned to Michigan, where they cared for Donald's great-uncle, Fred Main, Harbor Springs' last Civil War veteran. In 1941, they moved to Petoskey. There they became members of the First Presbyterian Church and its choir, where Dorothy sang for 48 years. She also was active in the Women's Association and Guild. She was a member of the Petoskey Little Theatre, appearing in "Life With Father" in 1949. She provided props for Little Traverse Civic Theatre as recently as its October production.

Her most fulfilling role was homemaker for Donald and their four children, Donna (Leslie ) Heinz and Patricia (John) Duvernay of Harbor Springs, James (Iola) Price of Bakersfield, Calif., and Dorothy (Robert) Dennis of Petoskey.

Donald preceded her in death in 1974.

She had 12 grandchildren, 39 great-grandchildren and 40 great-great-grandchildren, and was happy to hear there is a great-great-great-grandchild due in March. She also had four step-grandchildren and many step-greats- and great-greats.

Dorothy Andrus Crane (1902-2002) Interview

Video-taped interview 

Dorothy Andrus Crane Price

by Donna Joanne Price Heinz, 1984

G. PRICE:  Mother (Edith Stanley Andrus Crane) was telling me years ago about when she played in the little string band, that they had formed at her church. And she played the violin, and she had a banjo too, but mostly the violin. And uh, my dad (Guy Gilman Crane), who wasn' t the least bit musical uh, missed taking her home from church. So, he bought himself a little banjo, and she taught him the few notes on it, chords, so he could be in the stringed instrument band, too. And uh, that's how they started really going together seriously. Well, he was an electrician at the time when the mines were just first being electrified, if that's the right word. Anyway, he had to go out of town quite a bit. And uh, he had been going steady with mother for almost a year, off and on, on his different trips, when he'd come back. And he was in Columbus, Ohio. And she was getting just a little bit tired of waiting for him; just to see him when he comes home between the jobs he was on. So, when he was in Columbus, I don't know if she wrote him a letter, or if someone in the little string band told him, wrote to him, and said that she was getting very interested in a young man that had been taking her home after the practices. And that was enough to inspire my dad to buy a ring and send it home to her, and said, "Now, we're engaged." So, they were married shortly after that. But uh, that's a little story mother that told about how she urged him to get married. She was very shy, of course. And he didn't know that she was playing a trick on him, but it did the business anyway. After that, that was in Columbus, Ohio, that was um, his last job. Then, they moved to, they were married, and moved to Shawnee for his next job in the mine, and uh, that was where my sister Gladys was born. And uh, about two years later, after he finished that job, he went to Congo, Ohio. That was a big mining place. I mean, it had a big mine, but it only had one street in it. There was a church at one end of the street and a saloon at the other. And the miners lived in little mining shacks on either side of the street. And uh, that was where I was born. And when that job was finished, he uh, had to go to Delaware, Ohio. And uh, while he was there my brother, Bud was born. And uh, shortly after that, he uh, he had to go way to Illinois, to Joliet, Illinois, where they had a big penitentiary. And uh, he, he and his crew were putting electricity in that great big prison. And that was where my brother was born, that didn't live. And uh, after that job was done, he was um, first, he was uh, sitting, well, it was kind of the water and electric department in Rockford, Illinois. And uh, we were there just a very short time when my sister Betty was born. And uh, that's where all of our birth places were. (Now you can turn it off.....)

G. HEINZ:  Mom, would you tell a little bit about your own mother's life, before she became a Crane, when she was an Andrus?

Donald Arthur Price (1900-1974)

Donald Arthur Price
Denver Don
Born:	29 Oct 1900 Denver, Colorado
Died:	30 May 1974 Petoskey, Michigan
Father:	James Lincoln Price
Mother:	Minnie Pearl Main
Siblings:	Isadora Minerva Price Donald Arthur Price
Married:	9 Feb 1922 Lansing, Michigan
Spouse:	Dorothy Andrus Crane
Children:	Donna Joanne Price Patricia Ellen Price Baby girl Price James Douglas Price Dorothy Elaine Price

Obituary

 Petoskey News Review, Friday, May 31, 1974:

Donald A. Price Rites

Saturday Services for Donald A. Price, 73, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday from the Stone Funeral Home. Rev. Robert Kyser, of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate and interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery. He died yesterday at his Petoskey home.

On October 29, 1900 he was born in Denver, Colorado and moved to Lansing at the age of six. He attended Lansing schools and graduated from Lansing High School in 1920. On February 9, 1922, he married the former Dorothy Crane in Lansing. After a period of moving the couple settled in Harbor Springs in 1934 and in 1941 they moved to Petoskey where they had resided since.

Mr. Price was a retail salesman for Montgomery Ward and Co. from 1942-1964. He was manager of the Petoskey branch of the Secretary of State's License Bureau from September, 1964 until 1969 when he retired. He was active in the Democratic Party in Emmet county; was president of the Petoskey Softball League and was active in barbershop quartets for many years. For 31 years he was an active member of the choir of the First Presbyterian Church. For two years he served as secretary of the Harbor Springs Chamber of Commerce

Besides his wife, he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Leslie (Donna) Heinz, of Harbor Springs, Mrs. John (Pat) Duvernay and Mrs. Robert (Dorothy) Dennis, of Petoskey; a son, James Price, of Los Gatos, Calif; 12 grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren; 13 great step-grandchildren and a sister , Mrs. Frank (Isadora) Sallows, of Harbor Springs.