`Mr. and Mrs. Marcellus Murdock, 230 South Rutan Avenue. Before her marriage, Mrs. Murdock was Miss Mable Armour. She was a charter member of the Baby Camp, a member of the Thursday Afternoon Cooking Club and the College Hill Bridge Club. Mr. Murdock is a Rotarian and a member of the Wichita and Country Clubs. Marsh Murdock, son of Mr. and Mrs. Murdock, completed his high school work in three years and was an honor student in the 1921 graduating class. Victoria, Janet, and Jane are the three young daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Murdock. [1921 Social Register, Wichita, Kansas, transcribed by Kathi Travers.]
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Funeral services for Marcellus M. Murdock will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Central Christian Church, 445 N. Market. There will be a private entombment in Old Mission Mausoleum. Dr. Thomas O. Parish, a former Central Christian pastor, now of Wellington, will officiate. President and chairman of the board of The Wichita Eagle and Beacon Publishing Co. Inc., Murdock, 87, died Tuesday afternoon in Pittsburgh, PA., Where he had gone for physical therapy at Watson Clinic after a stroke suffered in Wichita last November 20th.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Paula H. Murdock; a son, Marsh M.; two daughters, Mrs. Victoria Bloom and Mrs. Foster Jennings. A third daughter, Mrs. Ward Colwell, died in 1963. Also surviving are several grandchildren. Gill Mortuary has charge. Murdock was born February 14, 1883, at the home of his parents, Marshall M. and Victoria Mayberry Murdock, located at Oak and St. Francis. Oak is now Murdock Street.
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Article by Marie McDonald reporting on a tour through the old Murdock house. Additions to the original house probably made along with repairs after a fire in the 1880s. Only four of the Murdocks' eight children lived to adulthood: Kate (Mrs. Bion Hull) who died in 1893; Pearl Jane (Mrs. Paul Eaton) who died in 1945; Victor, who died in 1946; and Marcellus, who died in 1970. Wichita Eagle, September 13, 1974, page 15A.
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He was one of the original members of the board of control when the Old Mission Mausoleum was first founded.
The builder and founder were George A. Saxton and the members are listed:
Floyd A. Amsden
Howard E. Case
Charles Albert Comley
Carl Fisher
William L. Gray
Marcellus M. Murdock
Charles Jusdon Petrie
Lon H. Powell
Reason R. Vermilion
Charles G. Yankey.
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Funeral services for Marcellus M. Murdock will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Central Christian Church, 445 N. Market. There will be a private entombment in Old Mission Mausoleum. Dr. Thomas O. Parish, a former Central Christian pastor, now of Wellington, will officiate. President and chairman of the board of The Wichita Eagle and Beacon Publishing Co. Inc., Murdock, 87, died Tuesday afternoon in Pittsburgh, PA., Where he had gone for physical therapy at Watson Clinic after a stroke suffered in Wichita last November 20th.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Paula H. Murdock; a son, Marsh M.; two daughters, Mrs. Victoria Bloom and Mrs. Foster Jennings. A third daughter, Mrs. Ward Colwell, died in 1963. Also surviving are several grandchildren. Gill Mortuary has charge. Murdock was born February 14, 1883, at the home of his parents, Marshall M. and Victoria Mayberry Murdock, located at Oak and St. Francis. Oak is now Murdock Street.
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Article by Marie McDonald reporting on a tour through the old Murdock house. Additions to the original house probably made along with repairs after a fire in the 1880s. Only four of the Murdocks' eight children lived to adulthood: Kate (Mrs. Bion Hull) who died in 1893; Pearl Jane (Mrs. Paul Eaton) who died in 1945; Victor, who died in 1946; and Marcellus, who died in 1970. Wichita Eagle, September 13, 1974, page 15A.
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He was one of the original members of the board of control when the Old Mission Mausoleum was first founded.
The builder and founder were George A. Saxton and the members are listed:
Floyd A. Amsden
Howard E. Case
Charles Albert Comley
Carl Fisher
William L. Gray
Marcellus M. Murdock
Charles Jusdon Petrie
Lon H. Powell
Reason R. Vermilion
Charles G. Yankey.
`Mr. and Mrs. Marcellus Murdock, 230 South Rutan Avenue. Before her marriage, Mrs. Murdock was Miss Mable Armour. She was a charter member of the Baby Camp, a member of the Thursday Afternoon Cooking Club and the College Hill Bridge Club. Mr. Murdock is a Rotarian and a member of the Wichita and Country Clubs. Marsh Murdock, son of Mr. and Mrs. Murdock, completed his high school work in three years and was an honor student in the 1921 graduating class. Victoria, Janet, and Jane are the three young daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Murdock. [1921 Social Register, Wichita, Kansas, transcribed by Kathi Travers.]
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Funeral services for Marcellus M. Murdock will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Central Christian Church, 445 N. Market. There will be a private entombment in Old Mission Mausoleum. Dr. Thomas O. Parish, a former Central Christian pastor, now of Wellington, will officiate. President and chairman of the board of The Wichita Eagle and Beacon Publishing Co. Inc., Murdock, 87, died Tuesday afternoon in Pittsburgh, PA., Where he had gone for physical therapy at Watson Clinic after a stroke suffered in Wichita last November 20th.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Paula H. Murdock; a son, Marsh M.; two daughters, Mrs. Victoria Bloom and Mrs. Foster Jennings. A third daughter, Mrs. Ward Colwell, died in 1963. Also surviving are several grandchildren. Gill Mortuary has charge. Murdock was born February 14, 1883, at the home of his parents, Marshall M. and Victoria Mayberry Murdock, located at Oak and St. Francis. Oak is now Murdock Street.
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Article by Marie McDonald reporting on a tour through the old Murdock house. Additions to the original house probably made along with repairs after a fire in the 1880s. Only four of the Murdocks' eight children lived to adulthood: Kate (Mrs. Bion Hull) who died in 1893; Pearl Jane (Mrs. Paul Eaton) who died in 1945; Victor, who died in 1946; and Marcellus, who died in 1970. Wichita Eagle, September 13, 1974, page 15A.
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He was one of the original members of the board of control when the Old Mission Mausoleum was first founded.
The builder and founder were George A. Saxton and the members are listed:
Floyd A. Amsden
Howard E. Case
Charles Albert Comley
Carl Fisher
William L. Gray
Marcellus M. Murdock
Charles Jusdon Petrie
Lon H. Powell
Reason R. Vermilion
Charles G. Yankey.
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Funeral services for Marcellus M. Murdock will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Central Christian Church, 445 N. Market. There will be a private entombment in Old Mission Mausoleum. Dr. Thomas O. Parish, a former Central Christian pastor, now of Wellington, will officiate. President and chairman of the board of The Wichita Eagle and Beacon Publishing Co. Inc., Murdock, 87, died Tuesday afternoon in Pittsburgh, PA., Where he had gone for physical therapy at Watson Clinic after a stroke suffered in Wichita last November 20th.
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Paula H. Murdock; a son, Marsh M.; two daughters, Mrs. Victoria Bloom and Mrs. Foster Jennings. A third daughter, Mrs. Ward Colwell, died in 1963. Also surviving are several grandchildren. Gill Mortuary has charge. Murdock was born February 14, 1883, at the home of his parents, Marshall M. and Victoria Mayberry Murdock, located at Oak and St. Francis. Oak is now Murdock Street.
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Article by Marie McDonald reporting on a tour through the old Murdock house. Additions to the original house probably made along with repairs after a fire in the 1880s. Only four of the Murdocks' eight children lived to adulthood: Kate (Mrs. Bion Hull) who died in 1893; Pearl Jane (Mrs. Paul Eaton) who died in 1945; Victor, who died in 1946; and Marcellus, who died in 1970. Wichita Eagle, September 13, 1974, page 15A.
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He was one of the original members of the board of control when the Old Mission Mausoleum was first founded.
The builder and founder were George A. Saxton and the members are listed:
Floyd A. Amsden
Howard E. Case
Charles Albert Comley
Carl Fisher
William L. Gray
Marcellus M. Murdock
Charles Jusdon Petrie
Lon H. Powell
Reason R. Vermilion
Charles G. Yankey.
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