Funeral services for the Rev. Glenn Edwin Murray, 81, Hartville, Mo., formerly of West Plains, Mo., were held at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 31, 2016, at United Freewill Baptist Church, West Plains, Mo., under the direction of Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.
Reverend Murray passed away at 3:09 p.m., Saturday, March 26, 2016, at Hartville Care Center.
He was born March 10, 1935, at Doniphan, Mo., to Jess Earl Murray and Clara Marie Crook Murray. He graduated from Doniphan High School with the class of 1953.
Reverend Murray was a veteran, having served with the United States National Guard. On Sept. 24, 1955, he was married at West Plains, Mo., to Rachel Victoria Adkisson.
While working at Cloud Oak Flooring, he answered the call to preach; he ministered for the next fifty-five years. Reverend Murray served at Pleasant Home Freewill Baptist Church, Alton Freewill Baptist Church, Hannon Freewill Baptist Church, Cabool Freewill Baptist Church, Oak Grove Church of God, First Freewill Baptist Church, Batesville, Ark., United Freewill Baptist Church, West Plains, State Line, Victory (Myrtle), Dry Creek and Hartville.
He enjoyed turkey hunting, taking his 100th in the spring of 2015.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Rachel Murray; five children, Dwight Murray, Pomona, Mo., Wesley Murray and wife, Judy, Houston, Mo., Jonathan Murray and wife, Lesa, Poplar Bluff, Mo., Clarissa Moon and husband, Melvin, Hartville, Mo., and Ronald Murray, and wife, Leslie, West Plains, Mo.; 11 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and three on the way; four sisters, Jane Mackley, Coolage, Ariz., Joyce Moore and husband, Dwaine, Doniphan, Mo., Sharon Johnson, Elsberry, Mo., and Sue Stillwell and husband, Kenneth, Doniphan, Missouri; two sisters-in-law, Ernestine Doss and husband, Don, West Plains, Mo., and Eudene Holt, West Plains, Mo.; two brothers-in-law, Shelby Adkisson and wife, Evona, West Plains, Mo., and Charles Stobaugh, University City, Mo.; and many nieces and nephews.
His parents, one sister, Emma Lee Stobaugh, father-in-law and mother-in-law, T. J. and Addie Adkisson and one brother-in-law, Ernest Adkisson, precede him in death.
Burial was in the Howell Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association or Texas County Memorial Hospital Foundation Chaplain’s Fund and may be left at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home. Online condolences may be expressed atwww.robertsondrago.com.
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