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As Biggin got older, the more she tended to speak her mind, and she loved threatening to chase men down the street in her walker “and throw rocks at them”. She always loved the times when the whole family could get together, enjoy a meal, and more importantly, enjoy each other’s company.

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Biggin’s family meant the world to her, and her kind, loving heart was always on full display when it came to her children, and later, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, all of whom she absolutely adored. She was a straight shooter with a heart of gold, her family always appreciating her deft humor and her complete and total honesty. She enjoyed working in her flower beds, gambling, going shopping with Bonnie, and going fishing with Johnny. Biggin was a fun loving, no-nonsense, outspoken firecracker of a woman who always said exactly what was on her mind, never shying away from the truth. Biggin met her match when she was introduced to the man who would ultimately become her husband, Johnny Kraicek, who was the love of her life for over 40 years. Biggin and her sister, Bonnie, were very close in age growing up, and Bonnie fondly recounts getting into many good-natured shenanigans with her sister, including bridling and hopping on an unsaddled, unbroken horse together and subsequently being bucked off, each getting the wind knocked out of them. Affectionately nicknamed “Biggin” as a young girl by her dad, she earned this moniker due to her small stature and her fierce, defiant, brave, and often ornery personality. She attended Tecumseh High School, later going on to have a varied career working for Anderson’s meat packing company, Hearn Machine Shop, and eventually becoming the owner and operator of her own home daycare center. Laverna was born on May 30, 1938, in Tecumseh, Oklahoma, the second-youngest daughter of Vernon Corbin and Lillie Mae (Hubbard) Sneed.

Kraicek of Del City, Oklahoma, passed away on October 6, 2022, at the age of 84.

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