Palestine High School Alumni Association

12 / 11 / 1923  –  03 / 07 / 1995

Services for Helen Wacha Murray, 71, of Chino Valley, Arizona, and formerly of Palestine will be 10 a.m. Friday at Bailey & Foster Funeral Home with the Rev. Mike Glenn officiating.  Burial will be at St. Joseph’s Cemetery.

Mrs. Murray died Tuesday at Yavapai Regional Medical Center in Prescott, Arizona.  She was born in Palestine on December 11, 1923, to John and Lillian Batik Wacha.  She was a seamstress in the clothing industry.  Mrs. Wacha was Catholic.

She is survived by her husband, William James Murray of Chino Valley, Arizona; daughter, Lisa Steinman of Chino Valley, Arizona; sisters, Lillian Houpy and Marie Parsons; brothers, Otto Wacha, Frank Wacha, and Fred Wacha, all of Palestine and one grandson.

Pallbearers will be Ernest Wacha, Steve Wacha, Alan Wacha, George Lee Wacha, Frankie Wacha and Larry Parsons.