Craig Hawkins

HAWKINS

Craig R.

Craig Redington Hawkins passed away on July 12, 2014, at his home in Las Vegas. He recently celebrated his 65th birthday. He had suffered for many years from COPD and congestive heart failure. Craig was born on July 5, 1949, in Toledo, Ohio and graduated from Roy C. Start High School.

He was an eccentric character known for dispensing homespun wisdoms like "trust is so hard to gain and so easy to lose" and "you can go too far one way as you can go the other." He also remembered the birth date of everyone he met and started each morning reciting the day's birthdays, among his many friends and family members. He could mentally calculate what day of the week a person was born on, could recite the names of the U.S. Presidents in order, and thought the novel "1984", had a title that was "30 years too early."

Craig is joining his father, Richard; his sister, Sharon and his daughter, Elizabeth, in the afterlife. He is survived by Jeanette, his wife of 40 years; his mother, Jeanne; daughter, Genevieve; son, Andrew; granddaughters, Jasmine and Elizabeth; brother, Scott and sister, Laraine.

Friends are invited to visit from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. on Sunday, July 20, in the Ansberg-West Funeral Home, 3000 West Sylvania Avenue, (between Secor and Douglas Roads). Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Monday, July 21, in the funeral home. Interment will follow at Toledo Memorial Park.