McCrory, William Maurice

Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise
Bartlesville, Nowata County,OK
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Pearl Harbor survivor, former Bartian, laid to rest
By E-E Staff Report

A survivor of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was laid to rest yesterday following funeral services in Bartlesville.

William Maurice McCrory, 92, a retiree of the Phillips Petroleum Co. and sailor aboard the ill-fated USS California at the dawn of American involvement in World War II, died Friday at the Oklahoma Veteran’s Center in Norman.

Funeral services were held yesterday in the Memory Chapel of The Arnold Moore Funeral Residence in Bartlesville.

Military honors were accorded by the Veterans of Pearl Harbor Last Man’s Club. Sapulpa High School Band members played “Taps” as they did at the ceremony at the Battleship Missouri where McCrory was in attendance as an honored guest.

The funeral cortege made its way to Independence, Kan. where committal prayers and entombment were directed beside the grave of his wife in the Mount Hope Cemetery.

McCrory was born in Grainola, Osage County on March 2, 1915 to Lawrence and Jeanette (Mathews) McCrory. He attended Grainola schools through third grade. He moved to Webb City, Mo. with his family when he was in the eighth grade where he graduated with the senior class of 1935 from the Webb City High School. He continued his education and attended the Springfield Teachers College and Diesel School in Cleveland, Ohio. He and the former Miss Ann Imogene Sewell were married on Oct. 26, 1941 at Las Vegas, Nev.

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