Mrs. Martha Jean Cratsenberg, 92, of LaHarpe, IL passed away at 5:44 PM Sunday, May 18, 2014 at the LaHarpe-Davier Health Care Center, LaHarpe.

She was born on May 12, 1922 in Lomax, IL the daughter of Guy and Mary Hutson Little. On October 12, 1947 she married Robert Cratsenberg in LaHarpe.

Mrs. Cratsenberg attended the Peoria Business College. She then worked as a secretary for Sheaffer Pen, Camp Ellis, Hancock County Court House, Carthage, IL and from 1967 until her retirement in 1992 she worked as the secretary for the LaHarpe School District. Earlier in life she helped her husband operate the Brown Lynch Scott Hardware Store in LaHarpe. She was a member of the LaHarpe Union Church, the P.E.O., and the Order of Eastern Star. She loved to garden and do oil paintings.

Survivors include her husband, Robert, three daughters, Janith (Kent Knopp) Cratsenberg of Monticello, IA, Kathy Kendall of LaHarpe and Becky (Rich) Wilhite of LaHarpe, four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and one sister, Darlene (Vern) Comstock of Hamilton, IL.

She was preceded in death by her parents and six brothers, Stanley, Robert, George, Wayne, Richard and Lldon Little.

Services will be held at 2:30 PM on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at Banks & Beals Funeral Home in LaHarpe, with Rev. Bruce Goettsche officiating. Burial will follow in the LaHarpe Cemetery. Friends may call after 3:00 PM Wednesday, at the funeral home, where the family will receive friends from 6:00 until 8:00 PM. A memorial fund has been established for the LaHarpe Ambulance.