Ernestine Blansit Murray
Sept. 25, 1918 - May 30, 2004
Ernestine Blansit Murray, the oldest of 10 children to Norman C. "Red" and Pansy "Pink" Blansit, was born on Sept. 25, 1918, in Walnut Shade, Mo., which is located in Taney County, Mo., about 40 miles south of Springfield, Mo. Ernestine was the granddaughter of Clement Clay "Pete" Blansit, who had emigrated from Valley Head during the Civil War with his widowed mother, Samantha Jane Lee Blansit, to the Ozark area of southern Missouri. Pete Blansit became a prominent rancher and cattleman and real estate developer in the Taney County area.
Ernestine spent her early years with her family in the Walnut Shade area, part of the time living in a log cabin, constructed by an early pioneer. She attended high school in Hollister, Mo., and also took advanced courses in business and accounting. When about 20 years of age, she started a successful restaurant in Hollister, Mo., which she operated until the start of WWII. She then closed the restaurant and moved to Wichita, Kan., taking a job with the Boeing Co. in the manufacturing office, which produced the B-29 aircraft used in the war in the Pacific theatre. With the end of WWII, Ernestine took a position as chief of the account sales section of a large grain brokerage in Wichita, Kan.
In early 1947, Ernestine Blansit married Max Davis Murray, an aerospace engineer, and moved to Los Angeles. Ernestine and Max moved fairly often in the aerospace business, spending significant periods in Los Angeles, Albuquerque, N.M., Patuxent River, Md., New Jersey, Long Island, N.Y., Dayton, Ohio, and Huntsville, which had been their home most of the time since 1960. During this period they had two sons, Scott and Stephen Murray. Ernestine took an increasingly active effort in many community organizations. During the Huntsville years, Ernestine was active in the Art Museum Guild, the Salvation Army, the Junior Welfare League, the Historic Huntsville Foundation and especially the Red Cross, where she became chairman of volunteers at Huntsville Hospital and later was chairman of the Red Cross volunteers for Madison County. Ernestine was a longtime member of the First Presbyterian Church and was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Ernestine Blansit Murray was preceded in death by husband, Max Davis Murray; brothers, Pete, Bob and C.C. Blansit; and sister, Imogene McCorkle.
She is survived by sisters, Joan Womack of Edmond, Okla., Betty Shouten of Colorado, Arlene Johnson of Missouri, Bessie Biggs of St. Louis, and Phylis Mischke of Steelville, Mo.; and many nieces and nephews. Ernestine is survived by sons, Scott Blansit Murray and wife, Karen, of Atlanta, and Stephen Nash Murray and wife, Vicki, of Roane County, Tenn.; and grandson, Andrew Conley Murray of Roane County, Tenn.
Visitation was to be 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. today at Laughlin Service Funeral Home. The graveside service was to follow at noon at Maple Hill Cemetery with Dr. Mel A. Strain officiating.
Originally published in the Huntsville Times on Wednesday, June 2, 2004
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Sept. 25, 1918 - May 30, 2004
Ernestine Blansit Murray, the oldest of 10 children to Norman C. "Red" and Pansy "Pink" Blansit, was born on Sept. 25, 1918, in Walnut Shade, Mo., which is located in Taney County, Mo., about 40 miles south of Springfield, Mo. Ernestine was the granddaughter of Clement Clay "Pete" Blansit, who had emigrated from Valley Head during the Civil War with his widowed mother, Samantha Jane Lee Blansit, to the Ozark area of southern Missouri. Pete Blansit became a prominent rancher and cattleman and real estate developer in the Taney County area.
Ernestine spent her early years with her family in the Walnut Shade area, part of the time living in a log cabin, constructed by an early pioneer. She attended high school in Hollister, Mo., and also took advanced courses in business and accounting. When about 20 years of age, she started a successful restaurant in Hollister, Mo., which she operated until the start of WWII. She then closed the restaurant and moved to Wichita, Kan., taking a job with the Boeing Co. in the manufacturing office, which produced the B-29 aircraft used in the war in the Pacific theatre. With the end of WWII, Ernestine took a position as chief of the account sales section of a large grain brokerage in Wichita, Kan.
In early 1947, Ernestine Blansit married Max Davis Murray, an aerospace engineer, and moved to Los Angeles. Ernestine and Max moved fairly often in the aerospace business, spending significant periods in Los Angeles, Albuquerque, N.M., Patuxent River, Md., New Jersey, Long Island, N.Y., Dayton, Ohio, and Huntsville, which had been their home most of the time since 1960. During this period they had two sons, Scott and Stephen Murray. Ernestine took an increasingly active effort in many community organizations. During the Huntsville years, Ernestine was active in the Art Museum Guild, the Salvation Army, the Junior Welfare League, the Historic Huntsville Foundation and especially the Red Cross, where she became chairman of volunteers at Huntsville Hospital and later was chairman of the Red Cross volunteers for Madison County. Ernestine was a longtime member of the First Presbyterian Church and was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Ernestine Blansit Murray was preceded in death by husband, Max Davis Murray; brothers, Pete, Bob and C.C. Blansit; and sister, Imogene McCorkle.
She is survived by sisters, Joan Womack of Edmond, Okla., Betty Shouten of Colorado, Arlene Johnson of Missouri, Bessie Biggs of St. Louis, and Phylis Mischke of Steelville, Mo.; and many nieces and nephews. Ernestine is survived by sons, Scott Blansit Murray and wife, Karen, of Atlanta, and Stephen Nash Murray and wife, Vicki, of Roane County, Tenn.; and grandson, Andrew Conley Murray of Roane County, Tenn.
Visitation was to be 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. today at Laughlin Service Funeral Home. The graveside service was to follow at noon at Maple Hill Cemetery with Dr. Mel A. Strain officiating.
Originally published in the Huntsville Times on Wednesday, June 2, 2004
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Ernestine Blansit Murray
Sept. 25, 1918 - May 30, 2004
Ernestine Blansit Murray, the oldest of 10 children to Norman C. "Red" and Pansy "Pink" Blansit, was born on Sept. 25, 1918, in Walnut Shade, Mo., which is located in Taney County, Mo., about 40 miles south of Springfield, Mo. Ernestine was the granddaughter of Clement Clay "Pete" Blansit, who had emigrated from Valley Head during the Civil War with his widowed mother, Samantha Jane Lee Blansit, to the Ozark area of southern Missouri. Pete Blansit became a prominent rancher and cattleman and real estate developer in the Taney County area.
Ernestine spent her early years with her family in the Walnut Shade area, part of the time living in a log cabin, constructed by an early pioneer. She attended high school in Hollister, Mo., and also took advanced courses in business and accounting. When about 20 years of age, she started a successful restaurant in Hollister, Mo., which she operated until the start of WWII. She then closed the restaurant and moved to Wichita, Kan., taking a job with the Boeing Co. in the manufacturing office, which produced the B-29 aircraft used in the war in the Pacific theatre. With the end of WWII, Ernestine took a position as chief of the account sales section of a large grain brokerage in Wichita, Kan.
In early 1947, Ernestine Blansit married Max Davis Murray, an aerospace engineer, and moved to Los Angeles. Ernestine and Max moved fairly often in the aerospace business, spending significant periods in Los Angeles, Albuquerque, N.M., Patuxent River, Md., New Jersey, Long Island, N.Y., Dayton, Ohio, and Huntsville, which had been their home most of the time since 1960. During this period they had two sons, Scott and Stephen Murray. Ernestine took an increasingly active effort in many community organizations. During the Huntsville years, Ernestine was active in the Art Museum Guild, the Salvation Army, the Junior Welfare League, the Historic Huntsville Foundation and especially the Red Cross, where she became chairman of volunteers at Huntsville Hospital and later was chairman of the Red Cross volunteers for Madison County. Ernestine was a longtime member of the First Presbyterian Church and was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Ernestine Blansit Murray was preceded in death by husband, Max Davis Murray; brothers, Pete, Bob and C.C. Blansit; and sister, Imogene McCorkle.
She is survived by sisters, Joan Womack of Edmond, Okla., Betty Shouten of Colorado, Arlene Johnson of Missouri, Bessie Biggs of St. Louis, and Phylis Mischke of Steelville, Mo.; and many nieces and nephews. Ernestine is survived by sons, Scott Blansit Murray and wife, Karen, of Atlanta, and Stephen Nash Murray and wife, Vicki, of Roane County, Tenn.; and grandson, Andrew Conley Murray of Roane County, Tenn.
Visitation was to be 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. today at Laughlin Service Funeral Home. The graveside service was to follow at noon at Maple Hill Cemetery with Dr. Mel A. Strain officiating.
Originally published in the Huntsville Times on Wednesday, June 2, 2004
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Sept. 25, 1918 - May 30, 2004
Ernestine Blansit Murray, the oldest of 10 children to Norman C. "Red" and Pansy "Pink" Blansit, was born on Sept. 25, 1918, in Walnut Shade, Mo., which is located in Taney County, Mo., about 40 miles south of Springfield, Mo. Ernestine was the granddaughter of Clement Clay "Pete" Blansit, who had emigrated from Valley Head during the Civil War with his widowed mother, Samantha Jane Lee Blansit, to the Ozark area of southern Missouri. Pete Blansit became a prominent rancher and cattleman and real estate developer in the Taney County area.
Ernestine spent her early years with her family in the Walnut Shade area, part of the time living in a log cabin, constructed by an early pioneer. She attended high school in Hollister, Mo., and also took advanced courses in business and accounting. When about 20 years of age, she started a successful restaurant in Hollister, Mo., which she operated until the start of WWII. She then closed the restaurant and moved to Wichita, Kan., taking a job with the Boeing Co. in the manufacturing office, which produced the B-29 aircraft used in the war in the Pacific theatre. With the end of WWII, Ernestine took a position as chief of the account sales section of a large grain brokerage in Wichita, Kan.
In early 1947, Ernestine Blansit married Max Davis Murray, an aerospace engineer, and moved to Los Angeles. Ernestine and Max moved fairly often in the aerospace business, spending significant periods in Los Angeles, Albuquerque, N.M., Patuxent River, Md., New Jersey, Long Island, N.Y., Dayton, Ohio, and Huntsville, which had been their home most of the time since 1960. During this period they had two sons, Scott and Stephen Murray. Ernestine took an increasingly active effort in many community organizations. During the Huntsville years, Ernestine was active in the Art Museum Guild, the Salvation Army, the Junior Welfare League, the Historic Huntsville Foundation and especially the Red Cross, where she became chairman of volunteers at Huntsville Hospital and later was chairman of the Red Cross volunteers for Madison County. Ernestine was a longtime member of the First Presbyterian Church and was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Ernestine Blansit Murray was preceded in death by husband, Max Davis Murray; brothers, Pete, Bob and C.C. Blansit; and sister, Imogene McCorkle.
She is survived by sisters, Joan Womack of Edmond, Okla., Betty Shouten of Colorado, Arlene Johnson of Missouri, Bessie Biggs of St. Louis, and Phylis Mischke of Steelville, Mo.; and many nieces and nephews. Ernestine is survived by sons, Scott Blansit Murray and wife, Karen, of Atlanta, and Stephen Nash Murray and wife, Vicki, of Roane County, Tenn.; and grandson, Andrew Conley Murray of Roane County, Tenn.
Visitation was to be 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. today at Laughlin Service Funeral Home. The graveside service was to follow at noon at Maple Hill Cemetery with Dr. Mel A. Strain officiating.
Originally published in the Huntsville Times on Wednesday, June 2, 2004
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Bio by: Susan Bennett
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Infant Daughter "Darling" Blansit
1917–1917
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Lexie Imogene Blansit McCorkle
1920–1986
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Earl Dean Blansit
1921–1981
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1924–2016
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1926–1996
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1927–2014
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1932–1997
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1935–2022
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