Hurt, Jack O.

McAlester New-Capital
McAlester, Oklahoma
December 4, 2008

Jack O. Hurt, 75, of the Longtown area of Lake Eufaula, died Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008, at McAlester Regional Health Center.

The family will receive visitors from 6 to 8 at Bishop Funeral Service.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Bishop Chapel of Memories.

Burial will be at the Masonic Section of Oak Hill Cemetery. Masonic services will be provided by South McAlester Masonic Blue Lodge No. 96. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Bishop Funeral Service of McAlester.

Born Feb. 24, 1933, in Oklahoma City, he was the son of Clarence Otis and Mary Bernice Gates Hurt. He moved with his family to New York and graduated from Garden City High School. He then attended the University of Georgia and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.

While in college he worked for the Georgia Highway Patrol before being employed by Western Union for several years.

He moved to Charleston, S.C., working in the insurance business and being a volunteer fireman, and it was there that he met and later married Luce Hooks on Sept. 26, 1968.

They moved to McAlester in 1969 and he worked for Century Insurance Company and was also a cattle rancher. He then worked for the Department of Corrections at Oklahoma State Penitentiary, retiring in 1987.

They moved to Lake Eufaula in 1992 and had lived there since that time.

He was a member of Eufaula First United Methodist Church and Eufaula Masonic Blue Lodge No. 1. He was also a 32nd degree Masonic member of the McAlester Scottish Rite Consistory and the Bedouin Shrine Temple.

Survivors include his wife, Luce Hurt, of the home; two daughters and three sons-in-law, Meredith (Bunny) and Shane Raleigh, of Savanna, and children, Ryan Compton, Kelby Compton, Cason Compton, Destiny Raleigh and Harley Raleigh, of Savanna, Melissa Kathrine and George Richardson, Sumter, S.C., and children, Sarah Scarbary and husband, Bill, of Florida, and Anna Richardson, Columbia, S.C., Duane LeBourdais, Plano, Texas, and children, Andrew and Alexandria LeBourdais; a sister, Patricia Prater, of McAlester, and numerous brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a daughter, Mary Anne LeBourdais.

Pallbearers will be Shawn O’Brien, Craig Compton, Tommy Braxton, Lewis Hornsby, Mike Verner and Ron Wilson.

Honorary pallbearers will be Gene Raleigh, Clifton Price, Truman Brown, Richard Carswell, Bob Don Carlos, Dwain Bentley, J. W. Martin, Bill Arends and Ronnie Wilson.

Memorials may be made to the Eufaula First United Methodist Church building fund, Shriners Hospital for Children.

Source:

Contributed by Marti Graham, December 2008. Information posted as courtesy to researchers. The contributor is not related to nor researching any of the above.

I hope you enjoy searching through our web site, as I've spent considerable time on it. If you find other information on the web or elsewhere that might be appropriate for this page, please let me know. I'm am particularly interested journals or other records of movement into Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
Site authored by Marti Graham, Coordinator Oklahoma County, Oklahoma part of the OKGenWeb Project	Visitor: Home Page last updated: 11 Nov 2023 This page updated: 11 Nov 2023
Copyright © 1997-2015. NO PART may be reproduced without author's permission.
You found this information at //www.okgenweb.net/~okoklaho/obit/../_private/xfooter.htm