Paul Henry Orr was the second child and tallest of the four sons of James Paul Orr and Jessie May (Cochran) Orr. He was born in rural Mount Vernon, MO. He was on the football team of Mount Vernon HS and received an honorable mention for the All-Southwest Football Team in 1927. Because of his age he did not serve in World War II.
Paul was the superintendent of the Hickory Hill Country Club, a golf course in Springfield, MO, and was known as a family story teller. He married Ruth Hood Mason in 1932, and together they raised her son Max. Paul was a doting grandfather to Max's children. He was a member of the Central Assembly of God Church of Springfield, and the Full Gospel's Businessmen's Fellowship. He died in 1980 of interstitial pneumonitis, a lung disease probably brought on by harvesting oats as a child and young adult.
Paul was the superintendent of the Hickory Hill Country Club, a golf course in Springfield, MO, and was known as a family story teller. He married Ruth Hood Mason in 1932, and together they raised her son Max. Paul was a doting grandfather to Max's children. He was a member of the Central Assembly of God Church of Springfield, and the Full Gospel's Businessmen's Fellowship. He died in 1980 of interstitial pneumonitis, a lung disease probably brought on by harvesting oats as a child and young adult.
Paul Henry Orr was the second child and tallest of the four sons of James Paul Orr and Jessie May (Cochran) Orr. He was born in rural Mount Vernon, MO. He was on the football team of Mount Vernon HS and received an honorable mention for the All-Southwest Football Team in 1927. Because of his age he did not serve in World War II.
Paul was the superintendent of the Hickory Hill Country Club, a golf course in Springfield, MO, and was known as a family story teller. He married Ruth Hood Mason in 1932, and together they raised her son Max. Paul was a doting grandfather to Max's children. He was a member of the Central Assembly of God Church of Springfield, and the Full Gospel's Businessmen's Fellowship. He died in 1980 of interstitial pneumonitis, a lung disease probably brought on by harvesting oats as a child and young adult.
Paul was the superintendent of the Hickory Hill Country Club, a golf course in Springfield, MO, and was known as a family story teller. He married Ruth Hood Mason in 1932, and together they raised her son Max. Paul was a doting grandfather to Max's children. He was a member of the Central Assembly of God Church of Springfield, and the Full Gospel's Businessmen's Fellowship. He died in 1980 of interstitial pneumonitis, a lung disease probably brought on by harvesting oats as a child and young adult.
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