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Earl Dean Murrow
© Enid News and Eagle
12-20-2011
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Glenn

Earl D. MURROW

Alva Cemetery


Funeral service for Earl Dean Murrow will be 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, at Marshall Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Ron Pingelton officiating. Interment will be in Alva Municipal Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home, Alva.

Earl Dean Murrow, son of the late Leonard Daniel and Olive Carmolette (Ross) Murrow, was born July 18, 1935, near Dacoma, Okla., and passed away Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011, in Alva, Okla., at the age of 76 years and 5 months.

Earl graduated from Dacoma High School with the class of 1953. In 1954, he graduated from American Business College in Wichita, Kan.

On Sept. 2, 1955, he was united in marriage to Neleda Ann Johnson in Dacoma, Okla. Two sons were born into this marriage, Larry Dean and Gary Dwayne.

Earl worked for C.R. Anthony’s in Alva, then Blackwell Smelter Co. In 1958, he went to work for the Alva Farmer’s Co-op. He later worked for the Columbia, Mo., Cottonwood Falls, Kan., Okeene and Banner co-ops. In 1971, he returned to work for Alva Farmer’s Co-op. He retired in1994 and started farming more land and driving an Alva school bus.

He was a member of Otterbein Methodist Church and later transferred his membership to First United Methodist Church.

He was a member of Alva Golf and Country Club, where he enjoyed playing golf. He was also an avid bowler.

For many years he served as secretary of Pleasant View Cemetery.

Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother-in-law, Hubert Ging, and a nephew, Tom Ging.

Earl is survived by his wife of 56 years, Neleda of Alva; two sons, Larry Murrow and wife Janet of Guthrie, and Gary Murrow and wife Charlotte of Alva; three grandchildren, Kristi and Adam Borth of Winfield, Kan., Kyle Murrow and fiancé Caitlin Borders of Alva, and Daniel and Leslie Pugh of Woodward; two great-grandchildren, Caitlyn Crawford and Rylie Pugh of Woodward; one sister, Betty Ging of Blackwell, Okla.; and other relatives and friends.

Memorial contributions may be made through the funeral home to Pleasant View Cemetery.

Remembrances may be shared with the family at www.marshallfuneralhomes.com.

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