The funeral service will be conducted at 1:00 P.M., Saturday, June 1, 2013 at Oglethorpe Funeral Chapel, Inc. 607 Kaigler Street, Oglethorpe, Georgia. Interment will follow in the Oglethorpe, City Cemetery, Memorial Drive, Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Mrs. Bessie Lou Ogburn Murray was born March 20, 1938 in Ideal, Macon County, Georgia to the late Calvin Ogburn and Emma Jean Gouch Ogburn. She was preceded in death by two siblings, Mable Jenning and Cora Jasper.
She was educated in the Hartford Public School where she acquired her high school education. She also attended Hartford Women College of Hartford, Connecticut. She retired from Wiremold Manufactory Company as an inspector. After retirement she moved to Stockbridge, Georgia, where she remained until her demise.
She was united in holy matrimony to the late Willie Martin Murray, and to this union two sons were born. One son, Eddie Murray, preceded her in death.
Survivors are one son Willie Bertran Murray, Stockbridge, Georgia; three grandchildren, William Michael Murray, Madison Simone Murray and Maya Michaela Murray, all of Trotwood, Ohio; two siblings, Gladys Alexander (Rev. Alexander), Vero Beach Florida and Clyde Ogburn (Marie), South Windsor, Connecticut; aunts and uncles, Johnnie Mack, East Hartford, Connecticut, Carolyn Anderson, Annette Anderson both of Miami, Florida, Marilyn Thomas (Abraham), Newark, New Jersey, Sandra Ogburn, Sharon Ogburn, Timothy Ogburn all of Montezuma, Georgia and Otis Ogburn, Macon Georgia; several nieces, nephews other relatives and friends.
DEEPEST SYMPATHY IS WITH YOU DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME...AND WARMEST THOUGHTS ARE WITH YOU ALWAYS.
MAY JEHOVAH,THE GOD OF COMFORT, BE WITH YOU DURING YOUR TIME OF LOSS.[ACTS 24:15]