{"id":90,"date":"2021-10-17T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/?p=90"},"modified":"2021-10-17T20:04:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T20:04:19","slug":"joan-murray-1921-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/2021\/10\/17\/joan-murray-1921-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Murray (1921-1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Abbreviated Timeline<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

02 May 1921
<\/strong>Birth, St. Louis, MO
Source:\u00a0 Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO;\u00a0Birth Index, 1920-1999<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Joan Virginia Murray – c. 1925<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

1930<\/strong> Age 8
Residence: 4624 Virginia Avenue, St. Louis, MO
Source: \u00a01930 US Census, enumerated 03 April 1930<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1935<\/strong> Age 13
Residence: 3164 Portis Avenue, St. Louis, MO
Source: \u00a01940 US Census, enumerated 19 April 1940<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Joan Murray – 1939<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

1939<\/strong> Age 18
Graduation from Southwest High School, St. Louis, MO
Source:  1939 Southwest High School Yearbook<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16 February 1940<\/strong> Age 18
Death of Mother, Frances Diamond (Hardie) Murray
Source:  Missouri Death Certificate for Frances Diamond (Hardie) Murray<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

1940<\/b> Age 18
Employment: \u201cnew worker\u201d
Residence: 3164 Portis Avenue, St. Louis, MO
Source: \u00a01940 US Census, enumerated 19 April 1940<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

25 September 1943<\/b>  Age 22
Attended marriage of brother, Edward Murray
Location: Watertown, NY
Source:  Family<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Joan Murray – 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

7 May 1949<\/b>  Age 28
Attendant at marriage of sister, Anne Murray
Address: 3164 Portis Avenue, St. Louis, MO
Source:  Family<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 1950<\/b> Age 29
<\/b><\/strong>Employment: Billing Dep’t Manager, Wm. H. Stanley & Co.
Office: 5069 Delmar Ave, St. Louis, MO
Showroom: 5143 Delmar Ave, St. Louis, MO
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 03 Dec 1950, Page 129<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
1950: W. H. Stanley Managers<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

1952<\/strong>\u00a0Age 31
Employment: Clerk, Wm. H. Stanley & Co.
Residence: 3164 Portis Avenue, St. Louis, MO
Source: \u00a01952 St. Louis City Directory<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fall 1952<\/b> Age 31
Entered St. Vincent’s Maternity Hospital
Address: 3210 East 23rd Street, Kansas City, MO
Sources:  Family; 1953 Kansas City Directory, listing for Hospital<\/em> & Home<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring 1953<\/b> Age 31\/32
Birth of son who was placed for adoption in St. Anthony’s Home for Infants
Address: 3210 East 23rd Street, Kansas City, MO
Source:  Family<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1953<\/b>\u00a0Age 32
Employment: Clerk, Barnes Manufacturing
Residence: Country Club Plaza Apartments, 4541 Main, Apartment 14, Kansas City, MO
Source: \u00a01953 Kansas City Directory, listing for Joan Murray<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1955<\/b>\u00a0Age 34
Employment: Office Worker
Residence: Country Club Plaza Apartments, 4541 Main, Apartment 14, Kansas City, MO
Source: \u00a01955 Kansas City Directory, listing for Joan Murray<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1957<\/b>\u00a0Age 36
Employment: Clerk, Wilson Trunk Co Inc.
Residence: Country Club Plaza Apartments, 4541 Main, Apartment 14, Kansas City, MO
Source: \u00a01957 Kansas City Directory, listing for Joan Murray<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joan continued to reside & work in Kansas City. She attended family events until her death in 1976. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
c. 1969 – Joan (left) with her five siblings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n

23 May 1976<\/b> Age 55
Death in Kansas City, MO
Source:\u00a0 Obituary, The Kansas City Star, 24 May 1976, p. 15<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
24 May 1976<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Abbreviated Timeline 02 May 1921Birth, St. Louis, MOSource:\u00a0 Missouri State Archives; Jefferson City, MO;\u00a0Birth Index, 1920-1999 1930 Age 8 Residence: 4624 Virginia Avenue, St. Louis, MOSource: \u00a01930 US Census, enumerated 03 April 1930 1935 Age 13 Residence: 3164 Portis Avenue, St. Louis, MOSource: \u00a01940 US Census, enumerated 19 April 1940 1939 Age 18Graduation from … Continue reading “Joan Murray (1921-1976)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-murray"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}