Monday, January 23, 2012

Thomas Owen Murray (1871-1953)

Thomas Owen Murray, 82, of 1211 McIlvaine Street in San Antonio, died in his home Friday August 14th.  A native Texan, he was born in Wilson County on July 10, 1871 to Robert Washington Murray and Margaret Frances James Murray.  Thomas moved to San Antonio in 1903 and had lived in the city for more than 50 years at the time of his death.  He was a carpenter and a member of the Los Angeles Heights Presbyterian Church. 

In 1909, Thomas married Miss Margaret Olivia Yeamans in San Antonio.  Mrs. Murray survives, as do a son Thomas Owen Murray, Jr.; a daughter Mrs. Ray T. Dixon, both of San Antonio; three brothers, J.G. Murray, Obed R. Murray and I.C. Murray, all of San Antonio; and two sisters, Mrs. H.L. Miller of San Antonio and Mrs. G.M. Warren of Lavernia, Texas.

Services will be held at 10am Monday at the Los Angeles Heights Presbyterian Church.  Interment will be at Roselawn Memorial Park.

== Obituary based on a notice in the San Antonio Express, 16 August 1953.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

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