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Submitted: 7/28/21 • Approved: 7/28/21 • Last Updated: 7/31/21 • R441615-G0-S3
MOTOR MACHINIST'S MATE FIRST CLASS PETTY OFFICER US Navy
World War II
August 5, 1911-January 5, 1973
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Borger News Herald - January 7, 1973
Funeral services for Justin Aubrey McGraw, 61, of 1117 Jackson, who died Friday afternoon in Veterans Hospital in Ft. Lyons, Colo., will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in Minton Memorial Chapel.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery.
Mr. McGraw has been a Borger resident for the past several years. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 25 in Hazlehurst, Miss., and was a World War II Navy veteran.
A native of Gillette, Ark., he was a steamfitter in the U.S. Navy shipyard in Long Beach, Calif.
Survivors include his wife, Jessie, of Long Beach, Calif.; a son, Maj. Jimmy McGraw, of Elgin Air Force Base, Fla.; three sisters, Mrs. Sadie Durning of Nashville, Tenn., Mrs. Cleo Morrison and Mrs. Charlene Ferrell, both of Borger; his mother, Mrs. Lura McGraw of Borger; and three grandchildren.
Contributed on 7/28/21
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