Obit of McClurg, W.C. "Ferd" - Kiowa County, Oklahoma

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Amarillo Globe News 11 Aug 1997

W.C. McClurg

LUBBOCK - W.C. "Ferd'' McClurg, 87, died Saturday, Aug. 9, 1997.

Services will be 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Resthaven Funeral Home Chapel with 
Gary Moore of Vigo Park officiating. Burial will be at 4:30 p.m. in Rose 
Hill Cemetery in Tulia with J.E. Dean Post No. 1798 officiating.

Mr. McClurg was born in Snyder, Okla. He attended school in 
Arkansas, Greenville, Kress and Flynt. He married Mary Montgomery of 
Tulia.

He established the O.K. Welders in Tulia in 1939. He worked as a custom 
harvester for 32 years before moving to Lubbock in 1974 and operating 
McClurg Rentals. Mr. McClurg was a shovel operator in the 21st Sea Bees 
Naval Construction in World War II. He spent 40 months overseas in the 
Aleutian Islands, Hawaii, Saipan and Okinawa. 

Mr. McClurg was a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and served 
as first Life Membership Chairman for Texas. He was past commander of the 
J.E. Dean Post No. 1798 in Tulia and served in district and state offices. 
He was a Baptist.

Survivors include his wife; six sisters, Odene Helms of Arlington; Marie 
Sims of Logan, N.M., Clara Seale of Friona, Mertie Formway of White Deer, 
Johnnie Davis of Olton, and Lola Noyes of Hereford; and a brother, 
Clarence Ray Payne of Midland.

The family requests memorials be to Rose Hill Cemetery Association, 
Wallace Funeral Home, 305 W. Broadway, Tulia, Texas 79088.
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