EMMA JEAN CRADIT LARSEN Emma J. Larsen, age 83, died Sunday, April 3, 2011, at the Springfield Regional Medical Center in Springfield, Ohio. A graveside celebration of life service will be held Thursday, April 7, 2011, 1:00 P.M., at Prairie Grove Cemetery west of Cottonwood Falls. The Rev. Samuel Albert Mason will conduct the service. The daughter of Wilbur and Myrtle Illsley Cradit, she was born May 15, 1927, in Newton, Kansas. She and Louis Larsen had been married for 48 years. She is survived by five children and spouses: Linda J. Daxon and her husband, Tom, of Oklahoma City, OK., Nancy L Stone and her husband, David, of Phoenix, AZ., Peggy R. Turner and her husband, John, of Yukon, OK., Jay L. Larsen and his wife, Penny, of Irvine, CA., and Lisa Good and her husband, Ron of Woodstock, OH.; and eight grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two sisters: Martha Yarnell and Mary White Peach and one brother, George Cradit. Memorials to the Chase County Senior Center may be sent in care of the Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home, 201 Cherry, Cottonwood Falls, KS. 66845. Messages may be left at www.brown-bennett-alexander.com.