Dorothy Marie Murr

Dorothy Murr lived her life as a Christian with the goal of going to heaven and meeting her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. On Thursday, October 20, 2022, she achieved that goal and is now and forever a resident with Him, and the many friends and family that have gone on before her. Dorothy was born on August 21, 1927, in Carnegie, Oklahoma, to Milton and Bessie Moore. She grew up in the Kingston and Burneyville area of Southern Oklahoma. As a young girl, she loved to dance at square dances that her daddy called. Her father was a farmer and one of his main crops was peanuts. During a peanut harvest in her high school years, she saw a young man working for her daddy that she thought was one of the prettiest boys she had ever seen. That young man was John Murr and the day after Dorothy graduated from Burneyville High School, she and John got married. They remained married for the next 73 years until his death. They made their home in the Oktaha area and later purchased 160 acres with a house. They farmed crops and ran a dairy. Dorothy raised three boys on that dairy farm, and she was responsible to get the cows milked morning and night while John worked at his town job at Pruitt’s Produce. In addition to the dairy, they later added a custom chicken dressing service charging 15 cents per chicken. Dorothy was responsible for cleaning the chickens after the morning milking. Dorothy loved going to church and if she couldn’t attend, she watched someone preach on TV. She was very active in the church and most of those years she taught a Sunday School class. She and John loved their neighbors and strived to be a good neighbor. She talked about how blessed she was to have those neighbors to become such special friends and they helped them so much that she could never repay their kindness. Dorothy and John always raised a huge garden so that they could bless family and friends by giving them vegetables. Dorothy was a good cook and had Sunday dinner for the family for many years. She enjoyed those Sunday afternoons and loved to play board games with the grandchildren. Many of them still talk about the games of Sorry and Uno they played with their grandma. Dorothy should be remembered as a hardworking, loving, caring person that would do anything possible to help you. She is loved and will be missed by her family, and the people that became lifetime friends. Dorothy is preceded in death by her husband John, parents, Milton and Bessie Moore, grandsons, Jeremy Murr and Andrew Ashwood, brothers, Jack, Leroy, Raymond, and David Moore, sisters, Catherine Frazier, Lois Murr, and Ruth Horton. She is survived by her three sons and daughters- in- law, John and Rhonda of Dayton, Texas, James and Daytha of Oktaha, Oklahoma, and Jerry and Glenna of Wainwright, Oklahoma; grandchildren, Charmin and Kevin Lane, David Hatcher, Jennifer Ashwood, Michelle and Jeff Selby, Jerrod and Jenn Murr, Josh and Jill Murr; great-grandchildren, Cody, Nate, and Kaitlin Lane, Haley and Cody Dean, Abby Ashwood, Roper and Hannah Selby, Brooklyn Selby, Baylor Selby, and Adelae, Josalyn, Everett, Henry, and Levi Murr, great-great-grandchildren, Hazelynn and Bristol Selby, Molly Drew Dean, and Hazel Kay Lane. A celebration of Dorothy’s life will be 2:00 pm, Thursday, October 27, 2022 at New Hope Assembly of God in Muskogee, Oklahoma, with Jerrod Murr officiating. Pallbearers will be Josh Murr, Kevin Lane, Jeff Selby, Cody Lane, Nate Lane, and Baylor Selby. Honorary Pallbearers will be special friends, Randy Eller, Mark Mullen, Paul Early, Justin Mullen, Josh Eller, Ronnie Reeves and Jerry Needham. In lieu of flowers the family has requested donations to be made to Hometown Hospice in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Dorothy Marie Murr

August 21, 1927 - October 20, 2022