Rita Anne (Lawyer) Kraft, (67) of Austin, Texas, died October 2, 2010, after a fierce fight with cancer. She was born March 19, 1943 in Dayton, Ohio to John Russell and Frances Elizabeth (Reese) Lawyer.
Rita was predeceased by her parents, her brother, James Russell Lawyer, his daughter Valentine and his son, James Michael, her brother-in-law, James William Hooper, his sons Terrence Michael, Stephen Eric, and Keith Alan, many aunts and uncles and cousins.
Rita grew up in Zanesville, Ohio, where she attended St. Nicholas grade school then graduated from Bishop Rosecrans High School in 1961. She graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor degree (medical technology) in 1965. She met her future husband, Leland Milo Kraft, Jr. there, and they were married on September 2, 1967. Their first daughter, Lisa Anne, was born in 1968 in Columbus, Ohio followed by their second daughter, Michelle Leigh in 1969 in Opelika, AL.
Rita worked for several years in the medical field and in food research, finally getting her real estate broker’s license in California in 1989. She was an active REALTOR and involved in community affairs for years in Camarillo, CA. Rita and Lee moved to Austin, TX in 2007 near their daughter Michelle and family. She retired, but kept busy volunteering for Mobile Loaves and Fishes, church blood drive, and Habitat for Humanity, and was a member of St Thomas More Parish. Rita loved being with her family and spoiling her five grandchildren, walking, cooking, doing crossword puzzles, reading, playing bunco, and being with her friends.
Surviving are her husband of 43 years, Lee, daughter Lisa Bermudez (husband Chris) of Oxnard, CA and daughter Michelle Murray (husband Peter) of Austin, TX, and five grandchildren, Christian, Cali, and Curren Bermudez of Oxnard, CA, and Connor and Tanner Murray of Austin, TX, and sister Jean Hooper of Zanesville, Ohio and several nieces and nephews and their children, two uncles and one aunt.
Memorial services to celebrate Rita’s life will be held at 11 AM on October 12th at St. Thomas More Parish, 10205 RR 620 N, Austin, TX. Interment will be at St Thomas More Columbarium. Reception to follow.
Memorials may be made to either the Cancer Society or Humane Society.
Arrangements under the direction of Cook-Walden/Chapel of the Hills Funeral Home, Austin, Texas.
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