My Ancestry

(2) Wendell Dean Murrow

Born 9 Aug 1922 near Avard, Woods Co., OK

Died

Buried

Parents

(3) Dolores Aileen Riggs

Born 4 June 1922, southwest of Dacoma, Woods Co., OK

Died 17 Nov 1999, Alva, Woods Co., OK

Buried 20 Nov 1999, Alva, Woods Co., OK, Municipal Cemetery

Obituary

Parents

Children:

• (1a) Randall Bruce, born 13 May 1947, Alva, Woods Co.,OK; died 20 Dec 1969 near Vinita, OK
• (1b) Rodney Carl

NOTES:

Mom and Dad both graduated with the class of 1940 at Dacoma High School in Dacoma, OK (their senior pictures are at the top of this page). They both attended college at Northwestern State Teachers College, as it was named then. Dad had been one of Dacoma's star basketball players and was selected to play for the Rangers. He enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and was discharged in 1945. They lived for awhile in Hutchinson KS, where Dad was stationed at the U.S. Naval Air Station. He served a tour of duty in the Panama Canal Zone before the war ended.

After being discharged from the Navy, the folks returned to Dacoma and Dad joined his parents in the family business, Murrow's Grocery and Locker Plant. The new plant opened in 1947, the year my brother was born. Dad was the butcher for the locker plant, was involved in farming, and became first the substitute and then the regular mail carrier for the Dacoma Post Office. While we lived in Dacoma, our family belonged to the Church of God.

When my brother and I were both in college, our family moved to Alva; we lived at 814 Apache Drive on the west side of town. When the Dacoma postal route was consolidated into the Alva office, Dad was transferred to the Enid Post Office and they eventually moved to Enid (4214 Pin Oak in the Seven Pines addition on Enid's west side). They ultimately returned to Alva and lived at 1017 Flynn Ave.

Mom died in November 1999. Dad remarried in October 2001; he married Verda Elizabeth Smith.

PHOTOS:

Mom, Dad, and Aunt Jean
March 15, 1942

Miami Beach, FL, 1944

Dad - left, 1923; right 1925

Dad's Birth Announcement