Kay County OK Obit for: Edith (Keel) McMurry 
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Submitted to the archives by: Claudia Thiry: workfarm@wiredok.com 
Date submitted: 2/26/2003 
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Edith Keel McMurry

ELYSIAN FIELDS, Texas - 

Edith (Keel) McMurry former Ponca City resident, died Friday, July 5, 1996, 
at Marshall, Texas. She was 98.

The funeral will be held graveside at 2 p.m. today at Elysian Fields, (Texas) 
Cemetery with the Rev. Johnny Joiner officiating. Arrangements are under the 
direction of the Sullivan Family Funeral Directors, Marshall, Texas.

Edith (Keel) McMurry was born March 6, 1898, in Tullahoma, Tenn. the daughter
of Alexander and Rose-Ella Keel. 

She graduated from Gainesville, (Texas) High School.

Mrs. McMurry was one of the first women to be employed outside the home by 
Bell Telephone Co. 

She also learned to drive at an early age in Chicago traffic and even rode 
the first Harley Davidson motorcycle to be purchased in Gainesville in 1914.

She was married to Stonewall Reynolds McMurry and traveled with him where 
his work took them from Gainesville, Texas, including Hammond, Ind., Ponca 
City, Bartlesville, and then to Marshall, Texas, where he retired in 1963. 

Mrs. McMurry was a homemaker, and an accomplished artist, specializing in 
oils and china painting, which she taught to others. 

She was adept at cooking, sewing, knitting, crocheting, needle-point, and 
gardening. Her hobbies also included fresh water fishing, and playing bridge 
and dominoes.

Survivors include a daughter, Patricia Holmes; four grandchildren; one 
great-grandchild; and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives. 

She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; one brother, Harvey Keel; 
and two sisters, Lily and Lena.

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