Myrtle D. McGraw's Obituary
Claudia Myrtle McGraw
Funeral services for Claudia Myrtle McGraw, 101, of Longview will be held at 10 Saturday, December 16, 2006 in the Chapel of Rader Funeral Home of Longview with the Reverend Leon Veasey officiating. Burial will follow in Gum Springs Cemetery. Myrtle passed away peacefully, December 13, 2006 at a nursing facility in Kilgore.
Mrs. McGraw was born August 20, 1905 the fifth of twelve children to Claude and Della Wooten DeGaugh, in the ?Irish Ridge? community near Talty Kaufman Co.. She was married to Joe McGraw on December 19, 1925 in Forney. Together they celebrated 65 years of Marriage. She was a devoted farm wife, help-mate, homemaker, and mother of three children. They moved to Kilgore in 1937 where her husband worked for an oil field trucking company, later transferring to Nebraska for several years. In their later years they owned and operated Gum Springs Grocery and Service Station until retiring. There they became members of Little Flock Baptist Church where she has maintained her membership. She loved the Lord and her church and enjoyed attending her Sunday school class as long as she was able. After the death of her husband in 1990, she lived alone and maintained her home until her vision failed. In 1997 she moved into an apartment where she lived with assisted care until moving into a nursing home in March, 2005.
A loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and great great grandmother, Myrtle will be missed by her children, Joe McGraw, Jr., and wife, Bonnie of Longview, Jim McGraw and wife Doris of Longview, Margarette Allison and husband, Buck of Kilgore; a sister, Altena Hancock of Stephenville; sister-in-law, Evelyn Shores of Kilgore; 8 grandchildren; 23 great grandchildren; and 11 great great grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 PM Friday, December 15, 2006 at the funeral home.
If desired, memorials may be made in honor of Mrs. McGraw to: Little Flock Baptist Church, 14206 W. FM 968., Longview, Texas 75602.
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