IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Mary E.

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Murray

Sep 4, 1919 — Jan 7, 2009

Obituary

Age 89, Lawton - Funeral services will be 10:30 AM Saturday at the First Baptist Church with Dr. William F. Watkins, officiating. Mrs. Murray died Wednesday. Burial will be at 2:00 PM Saturday in the Altus City Cemetery under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. Mrs. Murray was born September 4, 1919 southeast of Altus, Oklahoma to Charles and Ila Mae (Clinkscales) Garrett. She married Hubert J. Murray in Martha, Oklahoma on May 18, 1940. He died June 4, 1991. Before moving to Lawton she was a secretary for the Soil Conservation Service, the Bureau of Reclamation and the Assistant Superintendent of the Altus Public Schools. She graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science Degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 1965. She also attended the University of Oklahoma. She taught English, Oklahoma History and Psychology at Eisenhower High School until her retirement in 1983. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Iota Sorority, an OEA Life Member and a Life Member of the NEA. She was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church where she taught second grade Sunday School for forty two years. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Katie and Bob Cox of Lawton, a son and daughter-in-law, Charles H. and Lynn Murray, Helena, Alabama, three grandchildren and their spouses, James and Jennifer Cox, Moore, Emily and Jeffery Anderson, Lawton and Jennifer Murray, Helena, Alabama two great grandchildren, Cooper M. Anderson, Lawton and Kinley J. Cox, Moore and a special friend, Emma Cox, Lawton. She is preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Pauline Garrett. Memorial contributions may be made to the First Baptist Church Children's Ministry, 501 S.W. B Ave, Lawton, OK 73501.

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