Donna (Mitzi) Marjorie Murray, 88, Kingston, Missouri, passed away on December 12, 2013, at the Liberty Hospital, Liberty, Missouri.
Mitzi was born on November 12, 1925, in rural Kingston, Missouri, to James Walter and Mary Ethel Smoot Hill. She was a 1943 graduate of the Kingston High School. Mitzi had worked in the past as a typist, at Pratt & Whitney in Kansas City, Missouri, where she milled pistons for war planes during World War II, and she and her husband had owned a grocery store for a short time in Kingston. Later she worked at The Hamilton Advocate Newspaper in Hamilton and in the office of the County Clerk at the Caldwell County Courthouse. After retiring she was the bookkeeper for the Caldwell County Health Department in Kingston for a number of years. Mitzi was a member of the Kingston Federated Church.
Mitzi was preceded in death by her parents; an infant sister, Mary Jane Hill; and sister, Ruth Evelyn Houghton.
Mitzi married Billy Murray on March 8, 1944, in Kansas. He survives of the home.
Additional Survivors: Daughter, Teresa Franklin (Husband, Ron), Sullivan, Missouri; Son, Denny Murray (Wife, Susan), California, Maryland; Four grandchildren; Marci Franklin, Bethany Lohden (Husband, Michael), Amy Murray and Tyler Murray; Three great-grandchildren; Kamryn, Charlie, and Molly Lohden; and Sister, Barbara White, Franklin, Tennessee.
Funeral Service: 10:30 a.m., Monday, December 16, at the Kingston Federated Church.
Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m., Sunday, December 15, at Bram Funeral Home, Hamilton.
Interment: The Kingston Cemetery, Kingston, Missouri.
Memorials: The Caldwell County Foundation Cancer Assistance Fund.