Jack M. Murray

September 19, 1923 - August 19, 2004

Jack Milton Murray was born September 19, 1923, in Big Heart, Oklahoma, to Charles Augusta Murray and Garnet Helen Lauderback Murray. He died August 19, 2004, in Norman, Oklahoma. Mr. Murray graduated from Barnsdall High School prior to enlisting in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942. For forty years following the war, he was employed with Cities Service Oil Company. In 1956, he married Julia Cranor in Washington County Oklahoma. Together, they built a home near Barnsdall, Oklahoma. For many years, Mr. Murray ran cattle on their rural Osage County farm. In 1966, they moved to Lindsay, Oklahoma. During his employment, Jack was awarded the Joseph Holmes Award, the highest honor for an individual's safety performance, for forty-two years employment without an injury. Mr. Murray was a lifetime member of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic International Union, American Legion Post 227, IOOF and the Lindsay United Methodist church. Jack was an avid gardener who loved the outdoors as well as spending time with family and friends. Jack was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters Helen Haeske and Jessie Bivins, brother Charles Murray and nephew Mike Murray. Jack is survived by wife, Julia, of the home; one daughter, Jeanne Salmon and husband Alan of Norman; sons Jack Ray Murray of Atlanta, Georgia and Jeffery Allen Murray and wife Lisa of Edmond; grandchildren John Salmon and Elaina Murray. He is also survived by niece Sharon Allen and husband Terry of Tucson, Arizona; nephews Richard Bivins of Cleveland, Oklahoma; Paul Haeske and wife Lucie of Newalla, Oklahoma; and John Murray of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; sisters-in-law Betty Murray, Addie Myers and husband Raymond; Rhoda Blum; Naomi Owens and husband Leon; Ruby Cranor; Lola Cranor; brother in-law Jack R. Cranor and wife Mary Ann; Jim I. Tate, Jr., all of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Services for Jack will be Monday, August 23, 2004, at 10:00 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Lindsay, Oklahoma. Mr. Murray will be laid to rest at the Ethel Reese Cemetery in Barnsdall, Oklahoma Monday afternoon at 3:30. Memorial contributions can be made to the Lindsay United Methodist Church or the Oklahoma Medical Research Center. Funeral services are under the direction of B. G. Boydston Funeral Home, Lindsay, Oklahoma. Condolences to the Murray family may be sent online to www.boydstonfuneralhome.com