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The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., July 11, 1963, page 2

DEATH TAKES NORA MURRAY

To those who knew her well, Lenora T. Murray was affectionately called aunt Nora, a cheerful, busy person confined to a wheel chair since she was 19 year old. Members of her family believe she was a victim of polio.
She was born April 30, 1887 in Panakanic where her aunts had come in 1881 and life the other pioneers of that day endured the many hardships in making a home. They built a log cabin in Appleton there they lived for two years when Nora was small. She went to school in the lower Glenwood Valley.
Between 25 and 30 years ago she was moved from Glenwood to White Salmon in a small cottage across the street from Glen Lanes who kept a watchful eye on her. Mrs. Lane is a real niece. The neat little cottage had special conveniences built to accommodate her wheel chair from which she did her housework alone and in which she sewed many a delicate seam and embroidery. She quilted by the hour, met her friends, fed her pets and pampered the children who came to call. She was never married.
Funeral service for Aunt Nora will be tomorrow, Friday, July 12 at 1 p.m. in Gardner's Chapel with burial in the Mt. Adams Cemetery in Glenwood. Rev. Roger Clevenger will officiate.
Two years ago this month her health began to fail and she was admitted to Skyline. She died in her sleep the night of Monday, July 8, 1963. Notes to relatives were addressed and ready for mailing. She had visited with callers the day before.
Surviving Miss Murray is one sister, Mrs. Joe (Della) Hylton, Portland and the following nieces and nephews: Gladys Given, Los Angeles; Wanda Rutledge and Murriel West, Lyle; Frank Staack, T.D., Ore.; Howard Murray, Glenwood; Raymond Murray, Grants pass, Ore., Byron Hylton, Wallace Murray, Edith Kuhnhausen, of Portland; Thelma Kuhnhuasen, Vancouver; Jean King, Arlington, Ore.; Viola Walker, Wilma Driver and Zola Lane, W.S.