Capital National Bank bought the property and building and opened there in 1982 in 1995, that bank became what is today known as NBC Oklahoma. But after the murder, the Cravens family sold the home and surrounding property, and the land around it was developed. Originally, the Cravens planned to move their children and families to the property so they could all live near each other. Craig Margo even remembers law enforcement agents hiding in the trees and a police officer moving into a house on the property. The grandchildren stayed in upstairs bedrooms that are now NBC’s single large conference room.
Robert and Craig Margo remember living at the Cravens home for about 18 months after the kidnapping and murder. Quillian Jr., before killing himself Quillian survived. The gunman also shot Cravens’ brother-in-law, J.W. Cravens was shot and killed when he went to pay it. She called her dad, who withdrew money from the bank and went to their north Oklahoma City house. Margo, and their two boys and demanded a $5,000 ransom. A gunman forced his way into the home she shared with her husband, Dr. Cravens lost his life suddenly in 1962 in a ransom scheme that involved his daughter, Bobbie J. The home was beyond the edge of the boundaries of Oklahoma City and entirely undeveloped. Unlike today, there were no Walmart, Aldi’s, Hibdon’s Tires or any other nearby businesses, nor was there a Kilpatrick Turnpike bringing traffic to shop or eat at the busy Memorial and Penn intersection. Craven’s office the dining room and kitchen were turned into the teller station and customer service offices. The master bedroom suite was located in what is now CEO H.K. The large bay window in front of the teller station once looked out from on top of a hill at the woods that cozy room was a club room with a fireplace, cordoned off by a wooden folding panel. Some of the offices on the south end used to be the three-car garage, which explains the unusual tiny windows. The Margo grandsons remember riding horses through the property, which stretched at the time from NW 122nd to Memorial on the north and south and Pennsylvania and May Avenue to the east and west. The Margos remember this conference room fondly as a sitting room.
Painted by Italian artist Eraldo Carugati, who came to Oklahoma after imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, the oil paintings hang in what is now NBC’s downstairs conference room. and Ida Mae “Mollie” Cravens have returned to their original home, thanks to a gift from two of their grandsons, Robert Margo and Craig Margo, both of Oklahoma City. Today, portraits of the original owners, R.D. The family ultimately sold the home after a tragedy – a kidnapping and a murder – but for years, family members enjoyed the grand home near the corner of Memorial and Pennsylvania, surrounded by thick trees, gravel roads, fish ponds, hen houses, cattle and barns. OKLAHOMA CITY – Before NBC Oklahoma’s North Penn location was a bank, it was home to a prominent early-day Oklahoma City real estate entrepreneur and his family.
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