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Submitted: 7/28/21 • Approved: 7/28/21 • Last Updated: 7/31/21 • R441624-G441622-S3
Justin A.
December 29, 1880-April 26, 1955
Lura
January 11, 1889-December 25, 1984
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Justin A.
Funeral service for J.A. McGraw, 74, 210 N. Harvey, will be conducted at 2 p.m., Thursday, at the First Methodist Church. Rev. Lloyd Hamilton, will officiate assisted by the Rev. Eugene Brand of Skellytown.
McGraw died at 7 p.m., Tuesday at a Pampa Hospital. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lura McGraw, four daughters, Lillian Annis (Mrs. T.J. Gholson), Odessa; Sally Mae "Sadie" (Mrs. Buck Durning), Skellytown; Cleo Virginia (Mrs. R.D. Morrison), Borger and Charlene Elliott (Mrs. Clifford J Ferrell), Borger.
Other survivors include a son, J.A. McGraw Jr., of Skellytown; two brothers, Curtis McGraw of Friar Point, Miss., and E.G. McGraw of Little Rock, Ark.; three sisters, Mrs. Ward Johnson, Wheatland, Okla., Mrs. Trudie Satchfield of Stuttgart, Ark. and Mrs. Herbert Wright, West Helena, Ark., 11 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Interment will be in the Highland Park Cemetery.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Wednesday, April 27, 1955)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Justin Aubrey McGraw
Death Date: 26 Apr 1955
Death County: Gray
Certificate: 17811
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Justin Aubrey McGraw
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 74
Birth Date: 29 Dec 1880
Birth Place: Arkansas
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 26 Apr 1955
Death Place: Pampa, Gray, Texas, USA
Father: James Wilson McGraw
Mother: Jessie Beatrice Tremble
*Obituary Lura
Lure E. McGraw, 94, of 909 Jackson, died at 11:04 p.m. Tuesday in Borger Nursing Center.
A housewife, she was a native of Red River County, Texas and a Borger resident since 1944.
She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Pythian Sisters, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, she was 1 of 7 real daughters, United Daughters of the Confederacy, also a real daughter, and Bluebonnett Extension Homemakers Club.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Cleo Morrison and Charlene Ferrell, both of Borger, and Sally Mae "Sadie" Durning of Skellytown; 12 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren and 8 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church with Rev. Lyman Paul Wood, pastor, officiating.
Casket bearers will be Alfred Brown, Clarence Moore, L.D. Hill, S.L. Garrison, Ralph Wells and Charles Riley.
Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors.
The family will be staying at 1117 Jackson in Borger.
(Published in Borger News Herald - December 26, 1984)
Contributed on 7/28/21
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