Barbara Jean Murley

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Service Schedule
Graveside Service
Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery
Oswego, IL  
Friday, October 29, 2021
12:00PM


Celebration of Life
First Lutheran Church
515 S. Locust Street
Harrison, AR  72601
Monday, November 29, 2021
11:00 AM
Cemetery
Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery
Oswego, IL  
Memorial Contributions
Hillcrest Nursing Home
1111 Maplewood Road
Harrison, AR  72601


First Lutheran Church
515 S. Locust Street
Harrison, AR  72601

Barbara Jean Murley

of Harrison, AR

December 3, 1923 - October 8, 2021

Barbara Jean Murley went to join her God and family on Friday, October 8, 2021, at the age of 97. She was born to Elsie and Earl J. Dix, Sr. on December 3, 1923, in Illinois, one of four children. Her parents; her brothers, Robert and Earl J., Jr.; and her sister, Jodeen, preceded her in death.

Barbara and her husband, the late Hansel A. Murley, met at East Aurora High School in Illinois. Following her high school graduation, Barbara earned her Registered Nursing degree from The Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in 1946 in Chicago. When Hansel returned from serving three years in the Pacific Theater during World War II, he and Barbara married on December 23, 1946, and moved to Northfield, Minnesota where he attended St. Olaf College.

The couple had three children, sons Thomas and Mark, and daughter Martha, all of who preceded her in death. Barbara became a full-time wife and mother. She was a multi-talented woman of great faith. She played the organ at Lutheran churches in each of the three states where they lived. Her sewing, needlepoint, and quilting skills resulted in the creation of numerous gifts for family and friends. She volunteered at a health clinic, hunger program, and thrift store.

Those left to love her are her daughter-in-law, Vicki Murley; her grandson, Rick Murley; her granddaughter and her husband, Jessica and Mike Kline; her daughter-in-law, Stephanie Murley; her grandsons, Eric and Joel Murley; her granddaughter, Sara; as well as numerous great-grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.



Pastor Joel Quie will officiate at the graveside service being held on Friday, October 29, 2021, at 12:00 PM, at Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery, in Oswego, Illinois.

A Celebration of Life will be held on November 29, 2021, at 11:00 AM, at the First Lutheran Church, Harrison.


Contributions in memory of Barbara Murley may be made to Hillcrest Nursing Home, 1111 Maplewood Road, Harrison, AR 72601, or to the First Lutheran Church, 515 S. Locust Street, Harrison, AR 72601.

Arrangements were entrusted to Roller-Christeson Funeral Home, Harrison, AR, and Dieterle Memorial Home, Montgomery, Illinois.

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