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Loretta Mae Murrow James Bails © Alva Review-Courier 05-08-2020 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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November 17, 1944 - May 5, 2020
Family visitation will be Friday, May 8, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the chapel. (The number of people in the chapel will be limited; please be respectful.) Graveside and burial services will be held Saturday, May 9, 2020, at 2 p.m. at Alva Municipal Cemetery (those attending may turn their car radio to FM 104.9) with Reverend Donetta Hunter, pastor, Alva Assembly of God Church, officiating. Online condolences may be made at http://www.whartonfuneralchapel.com.
Loretta Mae, daughter of Dorothy Freda (Miller) and Cecil Wayne Murrow, was born in Alva, Oklahoma, on November 17, 1944. She passed away in Enid, Oklahoma, at the age of 75 years, 5 months and 18 days.
Growing up in the Cora area and attending a one-room schoolhouse northwest of Alva, she graduated from high school with the Class of 1962.
Miss Murrow was married to Larry James in Alva at his mother's house in 1962. To this union three children were born: Terri, Heidi and Larry.
She worked at The Golden Crust Bakery and at Wal-Mart as a secretary/bookkeeper.
Loretta married Wayne Donald Bails on November 29, 1974, in Alva, Oklahoma. They made their home in Alva where she helped raise their three children.
She was preceded in death by her parents; Wayne in 1994; and two brothers, John Lee in 1949 and Phil Murrow.
Loretta is survived by her two daughters and their spouses: Terri and Bill Ahlum of Holly Springs, Mississippi, and Heidi James of Alva; and a son and his wife, Larry and Dianna James of Seminole, Oklahoma. She is also survived by seven grandchildren: Katrina, William and James, Gayle, Dustin, Madison and Toby; 12 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Coetta Glenn and Diane Whisman; three brothers, Dale, Max and Russell; a number of nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.
Contributions may be made in her memory to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) for cancer at https://omrf.org/about-omrf/research-targets/cancer/) or through Wharton Funeral Chapel.
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