Claudis Rushford Murrah (1920 - 2002)
Jessie Maxine Daily
Claudis, the third child of Jess and Eva Murrah, was born May 6, 1920 at
Iowa Park in the oil fields of North Central Texas. However, he spent his
school-age years on a West Texas farm near Muleshoe with his four brothers
and two sisters. Claudis attended school in the Muleshoe District
graduating from high school in 1938.
Maxine, known as "Macky" by the Dailys, was born in Mountain Park, Oklahoma, the first of three children of Henry Clay Daily and Arvigene Ann Mitchell. She also spent her childhood on a West Texas farm near Claudis, but attended school at West Camp and Farwell. They first met at the age of eight. Maxine wasn't able to finish high school due to her mother's chronic illness. She stayed home after the 8th grade to help care for her younger sister and brother. Years later with three sons in high school, Maxine completed the GEDs and received her high school diploma.
Claudis and Maxine were married in Clovis, New Mexico on May 19, 1940 and soon moved to Wichita, Kansas where the first three of five sons were born. Claudis worked in the aviation parts industry as a tool and die maker. Within a year or two after their third child was born, they moved to the Oklahoma City area living temporarily in a trailer and apartment before moving into a house in Midwest City. Shortly thereafter, Claudis was called for duty with the U. S. Army near the end of World War II. He served in the Philippines with the 293rd Joint Assault Signal Company. While still in the Philippines after the war ended, Claudis was injured in an accident and was given a medical discharge.
The family relocated to Muleshoe in 1947 where Claudis ran a machine and welding shop. In addition to raising their three sons, Maxine maintained records for the business and sold insurance for Farm Bureau. Additionally, she was the sole carrier in Muleshoe of the morning and afternoon editions of the Lubbock Avalanche Journal. In 1956, the family moved to Colorado in the business of drilling water wells for farm irrigation and there the two other sons were born and the three older ones graduated from Walsh High School. Eventually, Claudis, a self-taught man, became a master electrician which took the younger family on construction projects in Kansas, back to Colorado and finally to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1978 where they lived for 25 years. Maxine continued to work most of the time in a number of different jobs until they both retired.
Claudis died October 18, 2002 at their Illinois River vacation home in Adair County, Oklahoma. Maxine died May 1, 2015 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Maxine, known as "Macky" by the Dailys, was born in Mountain Park, Oklahoma, the first of three children of Henry Clay Daily and Arvigene Ann Mitchell. She also spent her childhood on a West Texas farm near Claudis, but attended school at West Camp and Farwell. They first met at the age of eight. Maxine wasn't able to finish high school due to her mother's chronic illness. She stayed home after the 8th grade to help care for her younger sister and brother. Years later with three sons in high school, Maxine completed the GEDs and received her high school diploma.
Claudis and Maxine were married in Clovis, New Mexico on May 19, 1940 and soon moved to Wichita, Kansas where the first three of five sons were born. Claudis worked in the aviation parts industry as a tool and die maker. Within a year or two after their third child was born, they moved to the Oklahoma City area living temporarily in a trailer and apartment before moving into a house in Midwest City. Shortly thereafter, Claudis was called for duty with the U. S. Army near the end of World War II. He served in the Philippines with the 293rd Joint Assault Signal Company. While still in the Philippines after the war ended, Claudis was injured in an accident and was given a medical discharge.
The family relocated to Muleshoe in 1947 where Claudis ran a machine and welding shop. In addition to raising their three sons, Maxine maintained records for the business and sold insurance for Farm Bureau. Additionally, she was the sole carrier in Muleshoe of the morning and afternoon editions of the Lubbock Avalanche Journal. In 1956, the family moved to Colorado in the business of drilling water wells for farm irrigation and there the two other sons were born and the three older ones graduated from Walsh High School. Eventually, Claudis, a self-taught man, became a master electrician which took the younger family on construction projects in Kansas, back to Colorado and finally to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1978 where they lived for 25 years. Maxine continued to work most of the time in a number of different jobs until they both retired.
Claudis died October 18, 2002 at their Illinois River vacation home in Adair County, Oklahoma. Maxine died May 1, 2015 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Dating
Late 1930's
Late 1930's
