Beckham County, OK - Obits: David Calvin McGrady, 1930
23 August 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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MC GRADY, DAVID CALVIN
(8Dec 1930, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
CITY OFFICIALS TO M'GRADY RITES
Son of Commissioner Here Succumbs in Mangum Hospital.
City officials will go in a body to Mangum tomorrow afternoon to attend
the funeral of David Calvin McGrady, 41, son of Commissioner W. H. McGrady
of this city, it was learned today.
Mr. McGrady died in a Mangum hospital last night after suffering a heart
attack.  He was first stricken two weeks ago and was left in a weakened
condition which lingered until it developed into another attack which
resulted in his death.
For several years prior to moving to Mangum the younger Mr. McGrady was a
resident of this city.  He was married to Miss Edith Brunson, an Elk City
girl, here Feb. 6, 1914.
Mr. McGrady was born in Silley, Neb., on Sept. 3, 1889.  He moved with his
parents to Oklahoma, in 1894, and had been a resident of this state since.
During the past 18 years Mr. McGrady was an employe of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railroad company, working on the line that connects
Mangum with Texas.  He is a Thirty-second Degree Mason and a Shriner.
Surviving Mr. McGrady are his widow and his son, David Calvin, Jr., his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. McGrady and a brother Charles McGrady, all of
this city.
Services are to be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the
Presbyterian church at Mangum with Rev. Ben J. Salyer officiating. 
Masonic rites will be read at the cemetery according to word received here
today.

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