Cotton Co. - Obit - O. L. "Mac" McMurtrey (m256)

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FRIONA - O.L. "Mac" McMurtrey, 73, died Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2000, in Amarillo.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Calvary Baptist Church with the Rev.
Alvin Petty officiating. Burial will be in Friona Cemetery by Ellis-Blackwell 
Funeral Home.

Mr. McMurtrey was born in Walters, Okla. He joined the Navy in 1944, serving 
in the South Pacific during World War II. He returned to Parmer County in 1946 
and worked as a carpenter, helping to build Friona Wheat Growers. He later 
helped build Mills & Fleming Gin at Hub.

He was manager of Hub Grain Co. since 1959 and a member of Calvary Baptist 
Church. He had lived in Friona 48 years.

Survivors include a daughter, Rachel Clark of Friona; three sons, Claude 
McMurtrey of Silverton, Darrell McMurtrey of San Diego and Bryce McMurtrey 
of Amarillo; a brother, Eddie McMurtrey of Midwest City, Okla.; and six 
grandchildren.

Amarillo Daily News, Aug. 16, 2000